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People of this country have been finding it difficult to buy their own houses. In the last two decades, the percentage of working population possessing their own homes has gone down. The primary reason is that while the average salary of the working population has increased fivefold in the last two decades, the average cost of a house has shot up ten times. Clearly, the government has not done enough to ensure that the citizens' salaries increase as per the increasing costs of houses.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?
A. In the two decades before the last two, the disparity between salary and housing prices was rising too.
B. The trend of rental accommodation has increased drastically in the last two decades, adding to the financial benefits of owning a house and thereby, increasing the cost of owning a house.
C. Most immigrants who entered the country in the last two decades have purchased their own houses.
D. The percentage of working people owning their own houses has declined more rapidly in the last decade than in the decade preceding this last.
E. The number of jobs in the country has gone up by fifty percent while the number of houses has gone up by forty percent in the last two decades.
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Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above?
A. In the two decades before the last two, the disparity between salary and housing prices was rising too.
B. The trend of rental accommodation has increased drastically in the last two decades, adding to the financial benefits of owning a house and thereby, increasing the cost of owning a house.
C. Most immigrants who entered the country in the last two decades have purchased their own houses.
D. The percentage of working people owning their own houses has declined more rapidly in the last decade than in the decade preceding this last.
E. The number of jobs in the country has gone up by fifty percent while the number of houses has gone up by forty percent in the last two decades.
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31 Mar 2018, 19:00
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Option A,C & D are out of scope
Option B: Rental Accommodation trend upwards ----> increases financial benifit of owning house ---->increase cost of owning house .... but this donot talk about Govt measures
Option E: job increased 50% ( a clear outcome of +ve govt measures) AND housing increase 40%(could be a +ve govt measures) -- thus govt has done something but still the housing price is going up ( may be due to other factors of economics e.g., supply -demand). Hence the claim about the Govt's action in the argument weakens .
Ans Option E
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Would not say it is a great question..
But in the given choices only B fits in....
There is a mismatch between the salary by govt and the coat of owning the house..
B states that the salary given by govt is further compounded by the increased rental, so the disparity shown between the income and expenditure may not hold.
Rest of the choices are nowhere close..
B
