Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
May 1810:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Join us in a live GMAT practice session and solve 25 challenging GMAT questions with other test takers in timed conditions, covering GMAT Quant, Data Sufficiency, Data Insights, Reading Comprehension, and Critical Reasoning questions.
May 1212:00 PM EDT
-11:59 PM EDT
Make the most of your break with the most realistic GMAT™ prep. Take up to $700 off select products. Ends 6/1
May 1501:00 PM IST
-11:00 AM IST
Start your journey with a fully customized action plan and work with a dedicated mentor to achieve a 735+ score.- May 19
12:00 PM PDT
-01:00 PM PDT
Scoring 329 on the GRE is not always about using more books, more courses, or a longer study plan. In this episode of GRE Success Talks, Ashutosh shares his GRE preparation strategy, study plan, and test-day experience, explaining how he kept his prep.... - Jun 10
06:00 AM PDT
-06:15 PM PDT
Register for the GMAT Club Virtual MBA Spotlight Fair – the world’s premier event for serious MBA candidates. This is your chance to hear directly from Admissions Directors at nearly every Top 30 MBA program..
achuthanunni
Joined: 08 Dec 2021
Last visit: 11 Jan 2025
Posts: 2
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 3
Location: India
Schools: Anderson '27 (S) Fuqua '27 (S)
GPA: 9.12
23 Oct 2024, 06:06
Kudos
Bookmarks
Exactly what I was thinking as well. If there are 10 Kangaroos and 10 shrubs - when the aridity declines the shrubs don't thrive as much - only 5 shrubs for 10 Kangaroos. Points to the aridity being the cause instead of human activity.
LILICHKA
26 Oct 2024, 23:09
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi LILICHKA
It might help to first read an option A separate from Marco's argument.
According to the option A, we can infer that more aridity is not the cause of the extinction since GK survived more arid period.
Then let's apply this to Marco's argument. His argument is "it is not likely that the kangaroos’ food supply was adversely affected by the increasing aridity of the climate at the time." To paraphrase it, he argues that the increasing aridity did not adversely affect the food supply. So, the increasing aridity cannot have been the cause of the extinction of GK. This is similar to what option A is saying.
It might help to first read an option A separate from Marco's argument.
According to the option A, we can infer that more aridity is not the cause of the extinction since GK survived more arid period.
Then let's apply this to Marco's argument. His argument is "it is not likely that the kangaroos’ food supply was adversely affected by the increasing aridity of the climate at the time." To paraphrase it, he argues that the increasing aridity did not adversely affect the food supply. So, the increasing aridity cannot have been the cause of the extinction of GK. This is similar to what option A is saying.
LILICHKA
06 Dec 2024, 12:51
Kudos
Bookmarks
Marco: Giant kangaroos—one of several extinct species of large mammals (megafauna)—went extinct in Australia around 46,000 years ago. The deposits and wear patterns on the teeth of these animals from around the time of their extinction indicate that they fed mostly on saltbrush shrubs. Saltbrush thrives in arid climates, so it is not likely that the kangaroos’ food supply was adversely affected by the increasing aridity of the climate at the time. Thus, something else would have to account for their extinction, and the best candidate for that cause is predation by humans.
GK fed on SS and SS thrive in arid climate.
More arid --> more food --> thriving KG
Less Arid --> Less Food --> Not so thriving KG [Can we say this?] from the information given?
Option A: Giant kangaroos became extinct during a period that was less arid than previous periods they endured.
This means KG's thrived through the periods in which Food was less. so in the given period of extinction, their food supply was better than the past few less arid periods,
Thus supports the Argument that Food (SS) is not the cause and something else happened.
GK fed on SS and SS thrive in arid climate.
More arid --> more food --> thriving KG
Less Arid --> Less Food --> Not so thriving KG [Can we say this?] from the information given?
Option A: Giant kangaroos became extinct during a period that was less arid than previous periods they endured.
This means KG's thrived through the periods in which Food was less. so in the given period of extinction, their food supply was better than the past few less arid periods,
Thus supports the Argument that Food (SS) is not the cause and something else happened.
