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SonalSinha803 wrote:
A, C and D can easily be eliminated.
E says jobs have increasedby 50%, while the number of houses have gone up by 40%....( It doesn't mean that increase in jobs has been done by government, they could be private jobs. Moreover, increase in jobs still does not resolve, because argument talks about salary). Thus, I eliminated E.
I chose B because it gives an alternative reason as to why the price of owning a house has increased and clearly reflects that government has no role to play over here.
Thus, I find B more appropriate.
OA ??
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Can you please help me understand this is how I looked at it and came up with E as the answer.
Conclusion is that Govt has not done enough.... to control the housing price rise.
Question asks us to Weaken it that would mean finding an answer that says Govt has done enough. How come B supports that?
If only it strengthens it saying Govt did not intervene to control the trend that caused increasing house prices.
Please help understanding.
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Option B is more appropriate because it gives you an alternative reason as to why the price of owning a house has increased.
On the other hand E says an increase in the job. So think....
1. Is the increase in job means that salary has also increased upto a level where house can be bought ??
2. Does it even specify that job increase is due to the role of government ??
Answer to both questions is a NO.
Thus, E is tempting but a trap.
On GMAT weaken question can be resolved when argument states X -->Y and you chose an option which says either -
(1) Y -->X
(2) X--/> Y ( X did not cause Y)
(3) Z --> Y ( an alternative reason as to why Y happened is Z and not X)
This question has option B correct and B is of the 3rd type.
Hope it helps
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