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During the past week, 120 RamTech Corporation employees have reported symptoms of a strain of food poisoning known as disporella, but only 8 of these employees have tested positive for the strain. A RamTech spokesperson claims that the apparent outbreak of disporella can be attributed to contaminated food served two weeks ago at the company’s annual employee picnic.
Which of the following, if true, would best support the claim made by the RamTech spokesperson above?
(A) Disporella symptoms generally last only a few days.
(B) RamTech’s cafeteria facilities provide lunch to RamTech employees during every workday.
(C) People with disporella do not generally test positive for disporella until at least one week after disporella symptoms begin to occur.
(D) People with disporella often do not exhibit disporella symptoms until more than a week after contracting disporella.
(E) A person can test positive for disporella without exhibiting symptoms of disporella.
Which of the following, if true, would best support the claim made by the RamTech spokesperson above?
(A) Disporella symptoms generally last only a few days.
(B) RamTech’s cafeteria facilities provide lunch to RamTech employees during every workday.
(C) People with disporella do not generally test positive for disporella until at least one week after disporella symptoms begin to occur.
(D) People with disporella often do not exhibit disporella symptoms until more than a week after contracting disporella.
(E) A person can test positive for disporella without exhibiting symptoms of disporella.
28 Nov 2025, 03:30
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The question mentions about a party that was conducted by Ram Tech Coroporation (RTC). The 120 employees who attended the party have contracted disporella - and have showed symptoms of food poisoning. But, only 8 tested positive for the strain of disporella.
RTC spokesperson claims - that the apparent outbreak can be attributed to the contaminated food served 2 WEEKS AGO at Companies annual meeting.
Inferences, let’s assume the RTC party to be held on Jan 1.
RTC spokesperson claim “ apparent outbreak - food served 2 weeks ago”. So, the RTC spokesperson should have made the claim after Jan 14. And the symptoms might have occured within a week prior to Jan14.
We need an option which supports the claim made by spokesperson.
Options:
(A) Disporella symptoms generally last only a few days.
We don’t know when the onset of symptoms have been happened. Hence, wrong. The option explains only the duration of symptoms, the onset and timeline is not known.
(B) RamTech’s cafeteria facilities provide lunch to RamTech employees during every workday.
This is an irrelevant option, as it explains the lunch provided on a daily basis vs the lunch provided during the picnic. Hence, wrong.
(C) People with disporella do not generally test positive for disporella until at least one week after disporella symptoms begin to occur.
This option explains, why only 8 people have tested psoitive for disporella. But the actual claim is the picnic has happened two weeks ago, and the symptoms appearing now. Hence, wrong.
(D) People with disporella often do not exhibit disporella symptoms until more than a week after contracting disporella.
If the incubation period ( contracting the disease to the onset of symptoms) is large, here it’s mentioned as more than a week. This means, the time period between Jan 1 and Jan 7, No Symptoms have occured. The occurrence of symptoms might have happened only after Jan8. Hence, this option supports the RTC speokesperson claims.
Let’s run the NEGATION TEST:
If we consider the appearance of symptoms within a week, then the claim made by RTC spokesperson is false.
(E) A person can test positive for disporella without exhibiting symptoms of disporella.
The outcome of the result is not the claim made by RTC spokesperson. Hence, wrong.
Option D
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First of all, More than a week does not mean the second week. It can be any week...third, fourth etc.
Second, even if the symptoms appear in the first week, it does not invalidate the claim of the RTC spokesperson. The symptoms may be persisting even after one week.
Second, even if the symptoms appear in the first week, it does not invalidate the claim of the RTC spokesperson. The symptoms may be persisting even after one week.
