Smoking in bed has long been the main cause of home fires. Despite a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the last two decades, there has been no comparable decline in the number of people killed in home fires.

Each one of the following statements, if true over the last two decades, helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy above EXCEPT:

A) Compared to other types of home fires, home fires caused by smoking in bed usually cause relatively little damage before they are extinguished.

B) Home fires caused by smoking in bed often break out after the home's occupants have fallen asleep.

C) Smokers who smoke in bed tend to be heavy smokers who are less likely to quit smoking than are smokers who do not smoke in bed.

D) An increasing number of people have been killed in home fires that started in the kitchen.

E) Population densities have increased, with the result that one home fire can cause more deaths than in previous decades.

please explain

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I choose A.

I was stuck between A and B. However, in B, it could be that since people are asleep they have lesser time to react to the fire caused by smoking and this could still explain the higher deaths.

B for me 2
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In this question type: Resolve the paradox in order to be fit the answear has to address both the sides of the paradox, in this case we are looking for a solution that example address to only one of the sides, now lets tackle the answears,.....



Smoking in bed has long been the main cause of home fires. Despite a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the last two decades, there has been no comparable decline in the number of people killed in home fires.

Each one of the following statements, if true over the last two decades, helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy above EXCEPT:

A) Compared to other types of home fires, home fires caused by smoking in bed usually cause relatively little damage before they are extinguished.
explain the paradox


B) Home fires caused by smoking in bed often break out after the home's occupants have fallen asleep.


C) Smokers who smoke in bed tend to be heavy smokers who are less likely to quit smoking than are smokers who do not smoke in bed.


D) An increasing number of people have been killed in home fires that started in the kitchen. explain the paradox


E) Population densities have increased, with the result that one home fire can cause more deaths than in previous decades. explain the paradox


I am not sure about B or C using at this point POE I would keep B because it seems that deviate from the scope of the passage,

my correct answear would be B
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so option C is helping to explain the discrepancy.

I think answer should be A as it does not explain the discrepancy.

I go with B.
It does not resolve the paradox, instead it creates more discrepancy.

Took the full two minutes to narrow it down to A and B.

(A) just simply does not resolve any sort of paradox.

Yea Gauss, what you said makes sense. I missd out on the point earlier...

Mann....the CRs need a lot more scutiny, then what i actually do. the CRs in OG are jus too too easy compared to these...
gud for practice