Gprabhumir wrote:
Bunuel, Could you please provide an explanation of the answer here? Wanted to know why "B" specifically is correct, while others are wrong!
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Re: The Agricultural Board of a western European country determines
can anyone please explain why option E is wrong? Thanks in advance!
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The Agricultural Board of a western European country determines when and under what conditions new food-producing plants and seeds can be sold to the public. As a result, the Agricultural Board plays an important part in improving agricultural production in western Europe. Individual farmers and farm research centers are involved in the time-consuming task of discovering and testing new varieties of fruits and vegetables. But the Agricultural Board is responsible for verifying the qualities of the new products and for approving their sale and distribution to the public. New plants and seeds are not available to improve agricultural production until after they have been approved by the Agricultural Board.
The passage implies which one of the following statements?
(A) The Agricultural Board requires that new varieties of fruits and vegetables be regulated.
(B) Before new varieties of fruits and vegetables are made available to the public, they do not improve agricultural production.
(C) Researchers who develop new varieties of fruits and vegetables are responsible for the long period of time before such products are released to the public, not the Agricultural Board.
(D) The Agricultural Board should work more closely with farm research centers to guarantee the quality of new fruit and vegetable varieties.
(E) If the discovery of a new variety of apple has progressed from the research center to the public, it will improve agricultural production.
The analysis for this one is fairly straightforward if we take whatever is stated in the passage at face value without making any biases in the reasoning by bringing real-life assumptions.
Abbvns.: AB - Agricultural Board; AP - Agricultural production
A: It is stated that AB regulates new varieties of foods and veggies because it is responsible for determining what products have sufficient quality to be sold to the public. It is not the same as saying AB "requires" this regulation. For example: probably, the food development authority "requires" it to be regulated and AB is just a means to achieve this requirement.
INCORRECTB: This is just a paraphrase of the final sentence of the argument.
CORRECT.
C: This is nowhere stated or discussed in the argument: who is responsible for the "long period of time before products are released blah blah", except for the fact that AB is responsible for performing quality checks on new fruits and veggie products before approving them to be made public. This choice does not even make sense keeping the argument in context tbh, it is vague.
INCORRECTD: This choice talks about a recommendation that is neither discussed in the passage anywhere nor does the author indicate any such inclination towards guaranteeing quality in the passage.
INCORRECTE: The argument states in the 2nd sentence that: AB plays an "important part" in improving AP. Note that this as such is a qualitative statement. What does "to play an important part" mean? Does it mean that this needs to be true 100% of the time in all the cases handled by AB? Absolutely not. Something can be a very important part of a process, but at the same time may not be 100% perfect or effective. Hence, it need not be true that every product that AB approves DOES contribute towards improving AP and the new variety of apple in choice E may very well be part of this group. While, per the final sentence of the passage, the products that do improve the AP will not be available to do the same until they are approved by AB.
INCORRECT