Anupama_1090 wrote:
Hi,
I have doubts regarding option D and E.
Wont D be correct if it had mentioned only" stocks" of pepper have been reduced in the past three years? Use of SURPLUS which means EXCESS confused me. no where has it been mentioned in the passage or can be inferred that pepper supply was surplus before this shortage happened? IT could also be that the demand was just met right?
so i feel E is relatively correct? Please confirm
Thank you
Anupama
Let's start with a concrete example. Imagine that 100,000 Sega Genesis consoles were sold and shipped in 1991, but Sega only manufactured 90,000 units that year. The most plausible way those additional 10,000 units could have been shipped is if there was surplus inventory from a previous year, right?
It's reasonable to infer this even if I don't tell you explicitly that there was excess inventory, because those units had to come from
somewhere. That's the logic in (D). They're selling more pepper than they're producing, so they have to tap into an old surplus. Otherwise, we'd just be told that there was more demand than supply, and you'd have a lot of unhappy pepper customers!
In (E), we get a much bolder, less supported claim. How can we possibly know anything about whether profits the last three years are
unprecedented? We know nothing about expenses during this time period. And we know nothing about either revenues or expenses for previous periods. (Maybe profits were amazing 20 years ago!)
So (D) might not be perfect, but it follows logically from the passage in a way (E) does not, so it's better. Simple as that.
I hope that helps!
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