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None of A, B or C could possibly be right, because there's nothing in the stem that tells us why any of those answer choices describe something that would be different under the two plans -- there's no reason to think sorting recyclables is required under one plan and not the other. Only D or E describe situations that are clearly different under the plans. Which answer is correct depends on how much you like rodents, I suppose, and how onerous it would be to obtain the necessary sturdy containers required for plan 2. I'm sure the right answer is E, since plan 1 will attract rodents and presumably rodents are undesirable, but that's the problem with this question: we aren't told what would constitute a successful plan. So there's no logically correct way to answer the question without introducing one's own assumptions about what residents want.
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Residents of an apartment complex are considering two possible plans for collecting recyclable trash.

Plan 1 - Residents will deposit recyclable trash in municipal dumpsters located in the parking lot. The trash will be collected on the first and the fifteenth days of each month.

Plan 2 - Residents will be given individual containers for recyclable trash. The containers will be placed at the curb twice a week for trash collection.

Which of the following points raised at a meeting of the residents, if valid, would most favor one of the recycling plans over the other?


(A) Residents will be required to exercise care in separating recyclable trash from nonrecyclable trash.

(B) For trash recycling to be successful, residents must separate recyclable bottles and cans from recyclable paper products.

(C) Penalties will be levied against residents who fail to sort their trash correctly.

(D) Individual recycling containers will need to be made of a strong and durable material.

(E) Recyclable trash that is allowed to accumulate for two weeks will attract rodents.

As we need to prefer one plan to another, we will have to find one plan's advantage or disadvantage to another.
Option E directly tells us about the disadvantage Plan 2 possesses, making Plan 1 sound way better.
Any other option here seems to be irrelevant.
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Residents of an apartment complex are considering two possible plans for collecting recyclable trash.

Plan 1 - Residents will deposit recyclable trash in municipal dumpsters located in the parking lot. The trash will be collected on the first and the fifteenth days of each month.

Plan 2 - Residents will be given individual containers for recyclable trash. The containers will be placed at the curb twice a week for trash collection.

Which of the following points raised at a meeting of the residents, if valid, would most favor one of the recycling plans over the other?

We need to pick an option that will undermine or strengthen one of the plans
(A) Residents will be required to exercise care in separating recyclable trash from non-recyclable trash.This exercise has to be done in both plans, So it is not helpful

(B) For trash recycling to be successful, residents must separate recyclable bottles and cans from recyclable paper products.Same as A

(C) Penalties will be levied against residents who fail to sort their trash correctly.OFS, No be helpful

(D) Individual recycling containers will need to be made of a strong and durable material.OFS

(E) Recyclable trash that is allowed to accumulate for two weeks will attract rodents.This will weaken point 2. If they go with this plan there is an open issue, So they might prefer plan 1. Hence this is the answer
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I'm not sure about this one.
I'd go with OPTION E, but not totally convinced, as I think that Option C has also its merits.
Option C has no ground, in both the cases citizens will need sorting

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I think option C is better than the other options because it forces the residents to pay a fine to help maintain waste segregation and make a law against it.
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Residents of an apartment complex are considering two possible plans for collecting recyclable trash.

Plan 1 - Residents will deposit recyclable trash in municipal dumpsters located in the parking lot. The trash will be collected on the first and the fifteenth days of each month.

Plan 2 - Residents will be given individual containers for recyclable trash. The containers will be placed at the curb twice a week for trash collection.

Which of the following points raised at a meeting of the residents, if valid, would most favor one of the recycling plans over the other?


(A) Residents will be required to exercise care in separating recyclable trash from nonrecyclable trash.

(B) For trash recycling to be successful, residents must separate recyclable bottles and cans from recyclable paper products.

(C) Penalties will be levied against residents who fail to sort their trash correctly.

(D) Individual recycling containers will need to be made of a strong and durable material.

(E) Recyclable trash that is allowed to accumulate for two weeks will attract rodents.
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Residents of an apartment complex are considering two possible plans for collecting recyclable trash.

Plan 1 - Residents will deposit recyclable trash in municipal dumpsters located in the parking lot. The trash will be collected on the first and the fifteenth days of each month.

Plan 2 - Residents will be given individual containers for recyclable trash. The containers will be placed at the curb twice a week for trash collection.

Which of the following points raised at a meeting of the residents, if valid, would most favor one of the recycling plans over the other?


(A) Residents will be required to exercise care in separating recyclable trash from nonrecyclable trash.

(B) For trash recycling to be successful, residents must separate recyclable bottles and cans from recyclable paper products.

(C) Penalties will be levied against residents who fail to sort their trash correctly.

(D) Individual recycling containers will need to be made of a strong and durable material.

(E) Recyclable trash that is allowed to accumulate for two weeks will attract rodents.

We're given two plans. We need to find an answer that would give one of the plans an advantage over the other.
(a) No difference between the two plans. Not applicable to the goal
(b) No difference, and therefore irrelevant.
(c) No difference, within the confines of the question. In reality, it would be very difficult to enforce fines under Plan 1, but as the question doesn't establish that issue, we have to assume that the practicality of levying these fines is equally accounted for.
(d)This is different between the two plans, but a cost difference for residents isn't established, and neither is their preference For all we know, the cost is the same for residents, or they could already have a lot of strong and durable materials lying around that they've been dying to put to use.
(e) This is a difference between the plans that gives an advantage to Plan 2. Ostensibly, no one wants a bunch of rodents wandering around the complex. This is the best answer.

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How is Option E correct? Doesn't plan 1 also contain information that 14 days of trash accumulation will attract rodents? It also is making plan 1 as weaker as plan 2? Please let me know anyone.
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