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Re: Whenever she considers voting in an election to select one candidate [#permalink]
I think it is B. When Norton and Degrand did not have any issue, no chance for kay to consider them. Also Medina has a issue and she has atleast 50% chance to disagree with kay's opinion. So option C cannot be the answer.
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(B) and (D) are somewhat opposites in their answers so it is important to go back and understand the stimulus first. I will see if I can try and explain the stimulus better.

When choosing a candidate, Kay uses the criteria of "important" issues. In this particular case, there is only one important issue to Kay. The principle that the stimulus states is about a world where there is no single candidate that agrees 100% on Kay's important issues. In this world, it is acceptable to then pick a candidate where Kay disagrees with less on an important issue than others. Therefore, the only scenarios where it is unacceptable to vote for any candidates is when she disagrees with everyone equally or there is another candidate where she disagrees with less.

In this particular case, Medina disagrees with her on 0 issues (the optimal scenario for Kay), Legrand and Nortan disagrees with her on 1 issue. Therefore, we know that from the principle stated in the stimulus, it is unacceptable to vote for Legrand and Nortan. However, it is acceptable to vote for Medina, that's why (D) is wrong.

Does that clarify between (B) and (D)?
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Re: Whenever she considers voting in an election to select one candidate [#permalink]
rkassal wrote:
B should be the answer.
Since only 1 issue is important to Kay and Medina is the only one who shares that issue, Medina differs with Kay on 0 issues. On the other hand, the othe 2 individuals differ with Medina on 1 issue. Therefore, it is unacceptable for Kay to vote for the other 2 candidates.



It is mentioned, median shares her opinion NOT 'differs'.

All 3 may equally differ as well, we do not know ! All possibilities exist.
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