Public health professional: The Happydale Department of Environmental

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Public health professional: The Happydale Department of Environmental Services (DES) has inspected area beaches for pathogenic bacteria for over 20 years. Currently, DES monitors 50 freshwater beaches and 10 coastal beaches on a weekly basis. Program participation by owners of beaches that are open to the public is voluntary. Beach owners who choose not to participate in the Program are allowing the public to recreate on entirely unmonitored beaches. The DES now proposes adoption of the Adopt-a-Beach Program, designed to promote health and environmental education as well as public involvement in the protecting of public beaches. The program would require DES to collect biological data from all area beaches. It will also help reduce the number of beach advisories, whereby the public must be warned of dangerous conditions on certain beaches.

On the basis of the public health professional’s statement, indicate in the table which of the following is most likely to result if the DES proposal is successfully adopted, and indicate which is most likely to result if the DES proposal is not adopted. Make only two selections, one in each column.

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Sajjad1994 · Accepted Answer

Official Explanation

The public health professional says the DES proposal would require DES to collect biological data from all area beaches. If anything, this would make DES more likely to detect pathogens before they cause waterborne diseases, so the passage gives us no reason to think adopting the proposal would increase incidents of waterborne disease. Thus, the first option is not supported. The public health professional also explicitly says the proposal would help reduce the number of beach advisories, so the second option is not supported either. The public health professional does not indicate how much of a priority education currently is for DES. So although the proposal would promote education as well as monitoring, there is no reason to suppose it would result in DES shifting its principal priorities from monitoring to education. Therefore, the third option is not supported either. Since the public health professional says the program would require collecting biological data from all area beaches, probably no area beaches would remain entirely unmonitored if the program were successfully adopted. Thus, the fifth option is not supported either. But since the public health professional says some area beaches are currently unmonitored, the fourth option is supported.

The correct answer is There will be fewer, if any, entirely unmonitored beaches.

The public health professional gives us no reason to suppose that any aspect of the current situation will change if the DES proposal is not adopted. The first four options all describe changes in the current situation, so the public health professional's statement does not support any of them. In contrast, the fifth option merely says that some beaches will remain entirely unmonitored. And indeed, some of them probably will remain unmonitored unless the proposal or some similar program is introduced to monitor them. The public health professional does not indicate that any other monitoring program is likely to be adopted if the DES proposal is not adopted. Therefore, the public health professional's statement suggests that the outcome described in the fifth option is likely to result if the proposal is not adopted.

The correct answer is Some beaches will remain entirely unmonitored.

Apt0810 · Answer

A)If 
There will be fewer, if any, entirely unmonitored beaches, then every beach would be maintained and controlled by private people and also the biological data would be collected ,this making beaches safe

2)If the proposal is not adopted then some of the private beaches which are not participating in the program will be unmonitored ,this increasing the overall problem

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bM22 · Answer

1. Incidents of waterborne disease will increase. -  Neither of both , since nothing has been mentioned about the waterborne diseases in the statement by the Public health professional.

2. The number of beach advisories will increase. -  Neither of both , as its mentioned :"The program would require DES to collect biological data from all area beaches. It will also help reduce the number of beach advisories", implying that if the program is adopted then no. of advisories would decrease, but if not then also 
we cannot infer if they will increase.

3. DES will shift its principal priorities from monitoring to education-  Neither of both ,adopted or not nothing can be inferred about shifting priorities as nothing has been mentioned in the passage.

4. There will be fewer, if any, entirely unmonitored beaches. -   Adopted  , as its clearly mentioned in the statement :". The DES now proposes adoption of the Adopt-a-Beach Program, designed to promote health and environmental education as well as public involvement in the protecting of public beaches." implying that since public would adopt more beaches there would be less unmonitored.

5.Some beaches will remain entirely unmonitored. -   Not Adopted   - This would happen incase the program is not adopted, since the owner participation who do not allow pubic would be voluntary and thus there would be some beaches left that would be entirely unmonitored.

TheStoryteller · Answer

Incidents of waterborne disease will increase.---NEITHER
The number of beach advisories will increase.--NEITHER
DES will shift its principal priorities from monitoring to education.---NEITHER
There will be fewer, if any, entirely unmonitored beaches.---ADOPTED. If the DES proposal is successfully adopted then more beaches will be monitored, if not all.
Some beaches will remain entirely unmonitored.---NOT ADOPTED. If the proposal isn't adopted then DES won't be able to monitor all beaches(likely no more than it does currently.)

poojakhanduja3017 · Answer

1 - Incidents of waterborne disease will increase. :  Neither. This is because the condition can remain the same. It's not necessary that incidents will increase.  
2 - The number of beach advisories will increase.  Neither. This is because the condition can remain the same. It's not necessary that incidents will increase.  
3 - DES will shift its principal priorities from monitoring to education.  Neither. This is irrelevant at best.  
4 - There will be fewer, if any, entirely unmonitored beaches.    We can surely say about the monitoring. If we decide to ADOPT the program, this will be true  
5 - Some beaches will remain entirely unmonitored.    We can surely say about the monitoring. If we decide NOT to ADOPT the program, this will be true

hassan233 · Answer

Let's first break the statement into two.

Adopted:
The DES now proposes adoption of the Adopt-a-Beach Program, designed to promote health and environmental education as well as public involvement in the protecting of public beaches.  The program would require DES to collect biological data from all area beaches.  It will also help reduce the number of beach advisories, whereby the public must be warned of dangerous conditions on certain beaches.

Here, it is telling us that if we adopt the program, it would require DES to collect   data from all area beaches. If we are collecting data from all area beaches, then we can infer that all area beaches are being somewhat monitored. With this, we can say that  fewer, if any , beaches will be entirely unmonitored.

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Not adopted: 
The Happydale Department of Environmental Services (DES) has inspected area beaches for pathogenic bacteria for over 20 years. Currently, DES monitors 50 freshwater beaches and 10 coastal beaches on a weekly basis. Program participation by owners of beaches that are open to the public is voluntary. Beach owners who choose not to participate in the Program are allowing the public to recreate  on entirely unmonitored beaches .

If not adopted, nothing will change; everything will remain the way it has always been. It says in the statement, that currently (before the adaptation), there are entirely unmonitored beaches. This means that if nothing is adopted, we should still expect that  some  beaches will remain entirely unmonitored.

AliceElric · Answer

Made a mistake in the first one, don't really like the logic behind it

manrasingh · Answer

For adopted column, why is "DES will shift its principal priorities from monitoring to education." wrong. Can the experts please help  chetan2u   bb   Sajjad1994

chetan2u · Answer

The DES now proposes adoption of the Adopt-a-Beach Program, designed to promote health and environmental education as well as public involvement in the protecting of public beaches. The program would require DES to collect biological data from all area beaches.
 
Hi, you are basing your answer on the above statements in the para.

However, if you read the words carefully, the DES proposes a program that would include some sort of environmental education and would require the DES to collect data from all the beaches. 
The statement nowhere talks of changing of principal priorities. Yes, it is promoting a program that would include environmental education but is the DES stopping monitoring of beaches or relegating monitoring to second priority. NO, it is not mentioned anywhere.

So, maybe it would not be correct take the option under adoption column.

Dream009 · Answer

GMATNinja - For the adopted part why not option A: Incidents of waterborne disease will increase. We will have less advisors and there is bacteria is also

Also how to do these questions in 2 mins - I go over 3 - half of my time goes in reading the question only.

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Adopted	Not Adopted	Statements
		Incidents of waterborne disease will increase.
		The number of beach advisories will increase.
		DES will shift its principal priorities from monitoring to education.
		There will be fewer, if any, entirely unmonitored beaches.
		Some beaches will remain entirely unmonitored.

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