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Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business [#permalink] New post  04 Jul 2010, 11:08
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Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business as particularly efficient or dynamic and regard both as providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services. However, most people consistently perceive small business as a force for good in society, whereas big business is perceived as socially responsible only in times of prosperity.

The statements above, if true, would provide the strongest support for which one of the following hypotheses?


(A) Most people in the United States give little thought to the value of business to society.

(B) If big business were more efficient, it would be perceived more favorably by the public generally.

(C) If small business were regarded as being more dynamic, it, too, would receive strongly favorable ratings only in times of general prosperity.

(D) Even if people did not regard big business as providing consumers with value for their money, they would still regard it as socially responsible in times of general prosperity.

(E) Many people in the United States regard the social responsibility of big business as extending beyond providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services.
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Re: Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business [#permalink] New post  04 Jul 2010, 11:24
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Wow...pretty tough. But got the answer in 3.21 mins. E it should be.

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Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business as particularly efficient or dynamic and regard both as providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services. However, most people consistently perceive small business as a force for good in society, whereas big business is perceived as socially responsible only in times of prosperity.
The statements above, if true, would provide the strongest support for which one of the following hypotheses?
(A) Most people in the United States give little thought to the value of business to society. In fact most people give thought as suggested in the passage.
(B) If big business were more efficient, it would be perceived more favorably by the public generally. Passage does not give enough info to conclude this. Neither business type is particularly efficient or dynamic is what we are told. We are not told how public favor would respond to changes (for better or for worse) in efficiencies.
(C) If small business were regarded as being more dynamic, it, too, would receive strongly favorable ratings only in times of general prosperity. Same argument as in B
(D) Even if people did not regard big business as providing consumers with value for their money, they would still regard it as socially responsible in times of general prosperity. Nothing in the passage suggests this.
(E) Many people in the United States regard the social responsibility of big business as extending beyond providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services. This seems right because it says whereas big business is perceived as socially responsible only in times of prosperity implying that big businesses ought to be doing more than what they are doing.

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Re: Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business [#permalink] New post  07 Jul 2010, 17:25
Hey dwivedys, do you mind explaining little bit more in detail. I did not quite understand your explanation for E.
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Re: Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business [#permalink] New post  07 Jul 2010, 23:59
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seekmba wrote:
Hey dwivedys, do you mind explaining little bit more in detail. I did not quite understand your explanation for E.


hmmm...

Let us look at choice E:

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(E) Many people in the United States regard the social responsibility of big business as extending beyond providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services.


Choice E is discussing people in the United States. What did the passage tell us about Americans? Two things:

1) They regard both big and small businesses as providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services.
2) Most people [b]consistently [/b]perceive small business as a force for good in society (whereas big business is considered socially responsible only under certain conditions--namely, times of prosperity).

If both of these facts are true, then it must be true that:

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(E) Many people in the United States regard the social responsibility of big business as extending beyond providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services.


If choice E were not true--if people in the US thought social responsibility has to do with ONLY provision of fairly priced goods and services--then, they wouldn't be able to think that small business is more consistently socially responsible than big business (because they both provide fairly priced goods and services). That is: if choice E were false, then either fact 1 or fact 2 would be false--a part of the passage would become falsified. But in inference questions, we must treat the entire passage as necessarily true. Thus, chioce E must be true.

TAKEAWAY:

We can use the denial test in inference questions to prove that a choice is correct (must be true) or that a choice is incorrect (could be false).
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Re: Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business [#permalink] New post  13 Oct 2010, 02:38
Wow!! Took me 2.23 min.
Got E.
All the other options are not mentioned in the passage.
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Re: Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business [#permalink] New post  13 Oct 2010, 05:24
Got E in 2:14....gotta buckle up fro such CRs..
I am glad that after spending so much time, atleast I got it right :P
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Re: Most people in the United States view neither big nor small business [#permalink] New post  13 Oct 2010, 08:13
2:21 ...> E :D
A: no clue to prove this
B: the passage talked about people's view not the real defectiveness of ...
C:some sort of shell game I guess
D: value for their money ? where in passage?
E: :)
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