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Advantage: Energy consumption from manufacturing
Disadvantage: Cost per unit
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Environmental advocate: Wool sweaters and synthetic sweaters are both effective at keeping a person warm. The production of both wool fibers and synthetic fibers results in by-products-animal waste and industrial waste, respectively-that cause significant environmental harm if improperly handled. It is true that synthetic sweaters tend to cost significantly less than wool sweaters do, but they are considerably less durable. Thus one wool sweater will last as long as several synthetic ones and, even assuming the same energy consumption to manufacture wool and synthetic sweaters, over one's lifetime purchasing wool sweaters constitutes a significant energy savings as compared to purchasing synthetic sweaters.
Based on the information provided, select for Advantage the option that the environmental advocate most clearly identifies as an advantage of purchasing wool sweaters as compared to synthetic ones, and select for Disadvantage the option that the environmental advocate most clearly identifies as a disadvantage of purchasing wool sweaters as compared to synthetic ones. Make only two selections, one in each column.
Based on the information provided, select for Advantage the option that the environmental advocate most clearly identifies as an advantage of purchasing wool sweaters as compared to synthetic ones, and select for Disadvantage the option that the environmental advocate most clearly identifies as a disadvantage of purchasing wool sweaters as compared to synthetic ones. Make only two selections, one in each column.
| Advantage | Disadvantage | |
| Warmth | ||
| Cost per unit | ||
| Environmental effects of fiber production | ||
| Energy consumption from manufacturing | ||
| Total environmental effects of waste products |
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Advantage: Energy consumption from manufacturing
Disadvantage: Cost per unit
06 Jun 2024, 00:59
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The Energy consumption from manufacturing isn't the advantage, It's the durability due to which the overall expenditure on energy spent to manufacture is less. It's an indirect relation which the author is "assuming" as mentioned in the last sentence, not a fact but an assumption. However with elimination nothing else fits the advantage so we have to mark D but not a convinving option choice.
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Advtange: Energy consumption from manufacturing - This is the best option, because the environmental advocate states two factors:
1. Woollen sweaters last significantly longer than synthetic
2. Both woollen and synthetic sweaters take the same amount of "energy" in the manufacturing phase
So say a single woollen sweater lasted 20 years and a synthetic one 5 years on average, the energy consumption for manufacturing synthetic would be 4x higher.
1. Woollen sweaters last significantly longer than synthetic
2. Both woollen and synthetic sweaters take the same amount of "energy" in the manufacturing phase
So say a single woollen sweater lasted 20 years and a synthetic one 5 years on average, the energy consumption for manufacturing synthetic would be 4x higher.
