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If the needle on an industrial sewing machine becomes badly worn, the article being sewn can be ruined. In traditional apparel factories, the people who operate the sewing machines monitor the needles and replace those that begin to wear out. Industrial sewing operations are becoming increasingly automated, however, and it would be inefficient for a factory to hire people for the sole purpose of monitoring needles. Therefore a sophisticated new acoustic device that detects wear in sewing machine needles is expected to become standard equipment in the automated apparel factories of the future. Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above? (A) In automated apparel factories, items will be ruined by faulty needles less frequently than happens in traditional apparel factories. (B) In the automated apparel factories of the future, each employee will perform only one type of task. (C) Traditional apparel factories do not use any automated equipment. (D) The needles of industrial sewing machines wear out at unpredictable rates. (E) As sewing machine needles become worn, the noise they make becomes increasingly loud.
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D for me.
Only if they wear out at unpredictable rates, an automatic machine is required to 'detect' the problem. If this was predictable then the needles could be automatically replaced and there was no need to have a special apparatus to detect the wear.
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barakhaiev wrote: If the needle on an industrial sewing machine becomes badly worn, the article being sewn can be ruined. In traditional apparel factories, the people who operate the sewing machines monitor the needles and replace those that begin to wear out. Industrial sewing operations are becoming increasingly automated, however, and it would be inefficient for a factory to hire people for the sole purpose of monitoring needles. Therefore a sophisticated new acoustic device that detects wear in sewing machine needles is expected to become standard equipment in the automated apparel factories of the future.
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?
(A) In automated apparel factories, items will be ruined by faulty needles less frequently than happens in traditional apparel factories.
(B) In the automated apparel factories of the future, each employee will perform only one type of task.
(C) Traditional apparel factories do not use any automated equipment.
(D) The needles of industrial sewing machines wear out at unpredictable rates.
(E) As sewing machine needles become worn, the noise they make becomes increasingly loud. Vote for B. If people could combine different task there will be no need to hire a person who detect niddle wear out. This could be done by already existant person.
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Re: badly worn needle [#permalink]
26 Oct 2009, 08:46
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My ans is D.
If the rate of wear can be predicted, there is no need for monitoring.
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IMO D......
if the rate is predictable, the essence of automated equipment to monitor the needles is not required.
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Re: badly worn needle [#permalink]
30 Oct 2009, 20:31
(D) The needles of industrial sewing machines wear out at unpredictable rates.
Thatswhy a sophisticated acoustic device is needed. Otherwise a periodic replacement would have been fine.
Not E because there is no mention that worn out needles produce higher level of noise (maybe the device just detects some disruptions in continuity).
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13 Nov 2009, 18:03
Option D is the best answer. If needles wore out at predictable time intervals, then there would be no need for workers or machines to monitor them.
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18 Jun 2010, 04:12
I go for D.
A, B, C, E are unconvincing therefore they must be eleminated, leaving D.
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23 Jun 2010, 19:28
D for me.
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Re: If the needle on an industrial sewing machine becomes badly [#permalink]
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(A) In automated apparel factories, items will be ruined by faulty needles less frequently than happens in traditional apparel factories. (B) In the automated apparel factories of the future, each employee will perform only one type of task.
Why not (B).Although it works as an assumption, it also strengthens the argument by stating that each person can perform only one task so there is no use of keeping one person just for this task.(C) Traditional apparel factories do not use any automated equipment. (D) The needles of industrial sewing machines wear out at unpredictable rates. (E) As sewing machine needles become worn, the noise they make becomes increasingly loud. Plz Advice !!!
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Re: If the needle on an industrial sewing machine becomes badly [#permalink]
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targetgmatchotu wrote: (A) In automated apparel factories, items will be ruined by faulty needles less frequently than happens in traditional apparel factories.
(B) In the automated apparel factories of the future, each employee will perform only one type of task.
Why not (B).Although it works as an assumption, it also strengthens the argument by stating that each person can perform only one task so there is no use of keeping one person just for this task.
(C) Traditional apparel factories do not use any automated equipment.
(D) The needles of industrial sewing machines wear out at unpredictable rates.
(E) As sewing machine needles become worn, the noise they make becomes increasingly loud.
Plz Advice !!! Hi, (my first post  ) With the onset of automated factories, the traditional work of sewing will be performed by machines. So, the only remaining work left will be monitoring and replacing worn out needles. This work can be performed in following two ways - 1. Human intervention - The comprehension mentions this as an unfavorable situation since the person would be just monitoring the condition of needles (single item of work)
2. Machines - This would be favorable outcome as it will achieve the purpose of automation. Now, you should be able to see that B) is out of sync with the comprehension. It invokes a wrong context. Hope this helps.
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Re: If the needle on an industrial sewing machine becomes badly [#permalink]
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barakhaiev wrote: If the needle on an industrial sewing machine becomes badly worn, the article being sewn can be ruined. In traditional apparel factories, the people who operate the sewing machines monitor the needles and replace those that begin to wear out. Industrial sewing operations are becoming increasingly automated, however, and it would be inefficient for a factory to hire people for the sole purpose of monitoring needles. Therefore a sophisticated new acoustic device that detects wear in sewing machine needles is expected to become standard equipment in the automated apparel factories of the future.
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?
(A) In automated apparel factories, items will be ruined by faulty needles less frequently than happens in traditional apparel factories.
(B) In the automated apparel factories of the future, each employee will perform only one type of task.
(C) Traditional apparel factories do not use any automated equipment.
(D) The needles of industrial sewing machines wear out at unpredictable rates.
(E) As sewing machine needles become worn, the noise they make becomes increasingly loud. fameatop wrote: Hi Mike, Although I got the correct answer, i couldn't get why option E is incorrect. Waiting for reply. Regards, Fame We want to know which of the five answer is " most strongly supported by" the passage. In other words, what's the most justified conclusion we can draw? We know they are bring in " a sophisticated new acoustic device", which suggests the change in the needles will be detected via some sort of sound. But, do we know that it's a loud sound? Or, does the worn out needle change its sound in some other way, such as a higher pitch frequency or something like that. In a way, the fact that the need a " sophisticated" device suggests that the change in sound might be something unapparent to the ordinary ear. We certainly do not have evidence that the needles get " increasingly loud" as they wear out. That's why (E) cannot be correct. Does that make sense? Mike
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