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Re: By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households [#permalink] New post  23 May 2020, 09:38
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More standardized>>Discard less
Less standardized>>Discard more
More standardized>>Large amount of fresh produce
Less standardized>>Less amount of fresh produce

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.
Can't infer about the number of houses using any type of diet

(B) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.
Can't infer about nonfood diet

(C) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household’s food waste.
More standardized>>Large amount of fresh produce
Less standardized>>Less amount of fresh produce

(D) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste.
If its diet is less standardized, then there will be less canned & prepackaged foods then how can the discards be more.

(E) The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.
No relation of buying & throwing
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Re: By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households [#permalink] New post  21 Jul 2020, 05:51
HI experts ,
I also chose C but I still have a small query. Option C talks about PROPORTION of fresh produce whereas argument is about ACTUAL QUANTITY . Even though people with low Std.diet waste smaller proportion , actual waste Qty by this people may be higher than that of the people with high std diet .

Based on above understanding, inferring C may become difficult.

Pl clarify.
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Re: By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households [#permalink] New post  02 Aug 2020, 05:06
David nguyen wrote:
robu1 wrote:
ctkrishnan wrote:
My choice is C.

More standardized a household’s diet indicates two things..

1. More cans and prepackaged food used ---> Less food discarded
2. More cans and prepackaged food used ---> More fresh produce thrown away

Here "More cans and prepackaged food used" indicates the standardized diet...

Option C is the negation of the point number 2 above... So this fits in..



based on conditional reasoning , how we can arrive at OPtion C? If A then B is not equal to not A is not B ( mistaken negation). therefore i did not consider C

please explain.


Have you gotten your answer on this conditional reasoning? I have been thinking the same. I still have not figured out how this is correct. Thanks.


For Conditional Reasoning we need to identify what the sufficient condition is and what the necessary condition is. A sufficient condition does not make the necessary condition occur. It is just a sign or indicator that the necessary condition will occur, is occurring, or has already occurred.
So here we are given two statements lets review it one by one.
Condition One: A group of modern urban anthropologists has found that a household discards less food the more standardized- made up of canned and prepackaged foods-its diet is.
Here less food discarded just indicates more standardized diet the household is having so the necessary condition here is Standardized diet without which the sufficient condition cannot occur.
So two inferences can be made
1) Less Food Discard --> More Standardized diet (As already given)
2) Less Standardized Diet --> More Food Discard (Contrapositive statement)
Condition Two: The more standardized a household’s diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away.
Similarly, more Fresh Produce getting thrown away indicates more Standardized the diet is. So accordingly two inferences can be made
3) More Fresh Produce as Discard --> More Standardized diet
4) Less standardized Diet --> Less Fresh Produce as Discard.
So as per the inference 4, option C is the correct one. Hope this helps you
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Re: By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households [#permalink] New post  13 Aug 2020, 02:56
Please explain why C is correct.
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Re: By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households [#permalink] New post  13 Aug 2020, 04:57
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Please explain why C is correct.

Less Standardized >> Greater Total Quantity of Food Discarded
Less Standardized >> Smaller Quantity of Fresh Produce Discarded

Smaller Quantity of Fresh Produce / Greater Total Quantity of Food Discarded = Smaller Proportion
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Re: By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households [#permalink] New post  06 Sep 2020, 20:11
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By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households, a group of modern urban anthropologists has found that a household discards less food the more standardized- made up of canned and prepackaged foods-its diet is. The more standardized a household’s diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.

(B) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.

(C) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household’s food waste.

(D) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste.

(E) The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.


Crux of the passage.
HH more Std diet -> Throw less food away
HH -> more std diet -> more fresh produce is thrown away.

Type -> Infer

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.
Out of scope; Eliminate
(B) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.
Can't be inferred, Eliminate.
(C) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household’s food waste.
yes! since if a HH has more std. diet, it throws away more fresh produce, similarly for a HH which has less standardized diet, the fresh produce in household's waste is smaller. Correct!
(D) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste.
Opposite of what's can be inferred; Eliminate
(E) The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.
Can't be inferred. Eliminate.

C is a clear winner.
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Re: By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households [#permalink] New post  20 Jan 2021, 23:43
Plz help me understand this question. Is this really 600-700 Level Question because i felt some 700 Level were easy
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