Town Councilor: The only reason for the town to have ordinances restricting where skateboarding can be done would be to protect children from danger. Skateboarding in the town's River Park is undoubtedly dangerous, but we should not pass an ordinance prohibiting it. If children cannot skateboard in the park, they will most certainly skateboard in the streets. And skateboarding in the streets is more dangerous that skateboarding in the park.


The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following is most similar to that in the town councilor's argument?

(a) The reason for requiring environmental reviews is to ensure that projected developments do not harm the natural environment. Currently, environmental concerns are less compelling than economic concerns, but in the long run, the environment must be protected. Therefore, the requirement for environmental reviews should not be waived.
(b) Insecticides are designed to protect crops against insect damage. Aphids damage tomato crops, but using insecticides against aphids kills wasps that prey on insecticide-resistant pests. Since aphids damage tomato crops less than the insecticide-resistant pests do, insecticides should not be used against aphids on tomato crops.
(c) The purpose of compulsory vaccination for schoolchildren was to protect both the children themselves and others in the community against smallpox. Smallpox was indeed a dreadful disease, but it has now been eliminated from the word's population. So children should not be vaccinated against it.
(d) The function of a sealer on wood siding is to retard deterioration caused by weather. However, cedar is a wood that is naturally resistant to weather-related damage and thus does not need additional protection. Sealers, therefore, should not be applied to cedar siding.
(e) Traffic patterns that involve one-way streets are meant to accelerate the flow of traffic in otherwise congested areas. However, it would be detrimental to the South Main Street area to have traffic move faster. So traffic pattern involving one-way streets should not be implemented there.

I will give the OA once I get some answers as well as some logic behind why people chose what they chose.

Thanks!

IMO B

The argument provides a reason for not banning a known danger, which is to prevent a heavier danger (skating in the streets).

In option B the use of insecticide generates more damage from the insecticide resistant insects that now are being killed by the wasps, than from the aphids (less damage), therefore we are preventing a heavier damage by not using the insecticide.

Town Councilor: The only reason for the town to have ordinances restricting where skateboarding can be done would be to protect children from danger. Skateboarding in the town's River Park is undoubtedly dangerous, but we should not pass an ordinance prohibiting it. If children cannot skateboard in the park, they will most certainly skateboard in the streets. And skateboarding in the streets is more dangerous that skateboarding in the park.

(b) Insecticides are designed to protect crops against insect damage. Aphids damage tomato crops, but using insecticides against aphids kills wasps that prey on insecticide-resistant pests. Since aphids damage tomato crops less than the insecticide-resistant pests do, insecticides should not be used against aphids on tomato crops.

This sort of questions take me around 3 minutes to solve. Please provide any hints to improve timing on solving them.

Cheers

IMO A,
Reasoning in A is similar to the argument's reasoning.
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Hi, let me see if I can take this apart

First I just wanted to say that this sort of parallel reasoning, common on the LSAT, is not found on the GMAT. Good to keep in mind lest you worry too much about a question such as this one.

That said, let's dissect the argument

Something (the ordinance) has a purpose (to protect skateboarding children). Because it does not do so (kids will end up skateboarding in the streets), this something should not be implemented (measure should not be passed).

Now let's dissect Answer (E):

Something (one-way streets) has a purpose (to make traffic flow faster). Because it does not do so (traffic will not flow faster if South Main Street had one-way streets), this something should not be implemented (one-way streets should not be used on South Main Street).

Therefore, (E) is the answer.
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Can someone explain why B is wrong?

I didnt choose it over E
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B :- As one good thing leads to other bad thing

All i will say is that B is teh Clear winner in E the market interest is not the aim of traffic! so it can't be the answer

And regarding E, is question ne lele ki Lelee.

Is E your final answer? Or you want to have another go at this one?
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