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Most household appliances use electricity only when in use. [#permalink]
 20 Nov 2005, 14:31
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Most household appliances use electricity only when in use. Many microwave ovens, however, have built-in clocks and so use some electricity even when they are not in use. The clocks each consume about 45 kilowatt-hours per year. Therefore, households whose microwave oven has no built-in clock use 45 kilowatt-hours per year less, on average, than do comparable households whose microwave oven is otherwise similar but has a built-in clock.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A. Households that do not have a microwave oven use less energy per year, on average, than do households that have a microwave oven.
B. Microwave ovens with a built-in clock do not generally cost more to buy than microwave ovens without a built-in clock.
C. All households that have a microwave oven also have either a gas oven or a conventional electric oven.
D. Households whose microwave oven does not have a built-in clock are no more likely to have a separately electric clock plugged in than households whose microwave oven has one.
E. There are more households that have a microwave oven with a built-in clock than there are households that have a microwave oven without a built-in clock.
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My answer is D.
Author assume that households whose microwave oven has no built-in clock use less power because microwave is the only appliance used as a clock.
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TeHCM wrote: My answer is D.
Author assume that households whose microwave oven has no built-in clock use less power because microwave is the only appliance used as a clock.
Agreed. (D).
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Using POE, I got D.
What is the OA?
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yup got D as well.
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clearly D.
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One more D.
A, B, C and E: out of scope. Only D is relevent to the argument. 
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A. not important
B. out of scope
C. All households that have a microwave oven also have either a gas oven or a conventional electric oven.
D. Households whose microwave oven does not have a built-in clock are no more likely to have a separately electric clock plugged in than households whose microwave oven has one.
E. not important
Between C and D, I go with D. D says that another electric clock is plugges in seperately, and if so, the difference would not be 45kwh per year but less.
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OA is D
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OA is D
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