thelonghalloween wrote:
IMO Option C
Bunuel wrote:
Most countries, with the exception of those African countries devastated by AIDS, share a relatively high life expectancy and low fertility rate.
Above statement clearly uses life expectancy as some sort of indicator of country's health.
Only option C says this. To confirm, no other options seem correct/ relevant
BTW, it took me nearly 70 seconds to read the argument, and 94 seconds to solve overall. Any tips is reading/ analyzing this faster
Bunuel wrote:
Preconceived notions of the world, especially that of the so-called Third World, have colored our perceptions enough to blind us to its true state, illustrated by decades of reliable statistics. The currently prevalent and popular juxtaposition of the struggling Third World and the flourishing First World is consistent with the state of the world in the mid - twentieth century, not the world in which we currently reside. For example, while the richest 20% of the world’s population earn 74% of the total income and the poorest 20% earn 2%, the majority of the world’s population belongs to a “middle-class”, earning 24% of the total income. Most countries, with the exception of those African countries devastated by AIDS, share a relatively high life expectancy and low fertility rate. Child mortality rates in many Asian and South American nations are on par with those of the “developed world”; in fact, the country with the lowest child mortality rate in 2007 was Singapore. Unfortunately, most people’s ignorance of these facts and others like them stems from a lack of access to understandable data. Although the data are available, access to statistics is often costly and, even when free access is granted, statistics are presented in a dull fashion, which repels all but the most dedicated.
With which of the following statements about life expectancy would the author of the passage most likely agree?
(A) Life expectancy is inversely proportional to fertility rate.
(B) Having a high life expectancy should be a requirement for common consideration as a "First World" country.
(C) Life expectancy is an indicator of a country's overall state.
(D) Although life expectancy is currently high in most countries, it will not remain so in those countries commonly referred to as "Third World" countries.
(E) Low fertility rates cause life expectancy to rise.
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1.
In Passage,
Try to find correlation, there are some of defined pattern as mentioned below :
*- cause and effect - alomst 60%
*- some social moral story
*- business approach, to be beneficial or not
*- a study conducted by some and their strengthen or weaken result
2.
In Answer ChoiceIf are able to get the correlation from passage, typically answer option would be mentioned below as,
*- strength the argument
*- weaken the argument
*- out of scope to distract
*- so close the actual answer, but will be wrong
*- one of facts from passage, in different words, would be premise or conclusion in different words.
- correlation would be wrongly compared than actual
3.
Elimination can be made easy, by
*- 1st notice strong words, this are mostly indicators for elimination
*- relationship between X and Y, which is required
*- and most simple, ask What and why this option is given, it will help to understand correlation