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There are many agricultural regions in North America where the growing season is long enough to allow pumpkin production well into autumn with no risk of frost. Nonetheless, pumpkin production in North America is concentrated in regions with long, cold winters, where the growing season is delayed and pumpkin crops are exposed to risk of damage or destruction by early autumn frosts.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?

(A) Pumpkins are usually grown to reach maturity in autumn.
(B) Pumpkins depend on bees for pollination, and bees are active only in warm weather.
(C) More pumpkins are sold to consumers in regions of North America with long growing seasons than to those in regions with short growing seasons.
(D) Prolonged cold temperatures kill soil-borne fungus and other sources of disease that would kill or seriously damage pumpkins.
(E) Most of the pumpkin seed used by growers in North America is produced in areas where the growing season is long, and plants used for seed production are protected in greenhouses.

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SonalSinha803 · Answer

A is a trap.

B,C,E are clearly irrelevant.

Only D stands out in explaining why pumpkins are grown in the autumn frost without risk of damage.

Although my first choice was A, but it always felt weird and a re-examination made me confirm D.

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AkshdeepS · Answer

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?

(A) Pumpkins are usually grown to reach maturity in autumn.
(B) Pumpkins depend on bees for pollination, and bees are active only in warm weather.
(C) More pumpkins are sold to consumers in regions of North America with long growing seasons than to those in regions with short growing seasons.
(D) Prolonged cold temperatures kill soil-borne fungus and other sources of disease that would kill or seriously damage pumpkins.
(E) Most of the pumpkin seed used by growers in North America is produced in areas where the growing season is long, and plants used for seed production are protected in greenhouses.

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push12345 · Answer

Argument says that it is custom to grow pumpkin well into autumn 
But still it is grown in cold regions risking and exposed to frost
We need to find an advantage of growing pumpkin in cold regions

Choice D clearly states reason and advantage, one have by growing pumpkin in cold regions

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shoumkrish · Answer

There are many agricultural regions in North America where the growing season is long enough to allow pumpkin production well into autumn with no risk of frost. Nonetheless, pumpkin production in North America is concentrated in regions with long, cold winters, where the growing season is delayed and pumpkin crops are exposed to risk of damage or destruction by early autumn frosts.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?

(A) Pumpkins are usually grown to reach maturity in autumn.  Okay. But it does not explain why the pumpkin production is still concentrated in the long winter regions 
(B) Pumpkins depend on bees for pollination, and bees are active only in warm weather.  Again, this new info does not explain why they still grow pumpkins in the cold winters 
(C) More pumpkins are sold to consumers in regions of North America with long growing seasons than to those in regions with short growing seasons.  This does not explain why the growers cannot produce it in the short season and sell it to consumers in the long winter season regions. 
(D) Prolonged cold temperatures kill soil-borne fungus and other sources of disease that would kill or seriously damage pumpkins.  Hmm. This explains why the pumpkin production is still concentrated in the long, cold winter regions. 
(E) Most of the pumpkin seed used by growers in North America is produced in areas where the growing season is long, and plants used for seed production are protected in greenhouses.  This does not explain the paradox why the growers still produce them in the long winter regions.

dolorenemo · Answer

Isn't E option explains that they produce in greenhouse hence the extreme cold whether doesn't impact their crop?

guddo · Answer

There are many agricultural regions in North America where the growing season is long enough to allow pumpkin production well into autumn with no risk of frost. Nonetheless, pumpkin production in North America is concentrated in regions with long, cold winters, where the growing season is delayed and pumpkin crops are exposed to risk of damage or destruction by early autumn frosts.
 
 Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in the information above?

The “discrepancy” is: why concentrate production in riskier, short season, early frost areas when safer long season areas exist? The best resolution gives a compensating advantage of the cold winter regions that outweighs the frost risk.

(A) Pumpkins are usually grown to reach maturity in autumn.

This does not explain why production is concentrated in cold winter regions. Pumpkins reaching maturity in autumn can happen in both kinds of regions.

(B) Pumpkins depend on bees for pollination, and bees are active only in warm weather.

This actually favors long growing seasons, not cold winter regions, so it does not resolve the discrepancy.

(C) More pumpkins are sold to consumers in regions of North America with long growing seasons than to those in regions with short growing seasons.

This suggests demand is higher in long season regions, which again would not explain why production is concentrated elsewhere.

(D) Prolonged cold temperatures kill soil-borne fungus and other sources of disease that would kill or seriously damage pumpkins.

This gives a strong advantage of cold winter regions: fewer diseases, higher yields, less loss overall. That can make those regions better for production even if there is some frost risk.

(E) Most of the pumpkin seed used by growers in North America is produced in areas where the growing season is long, and plants used for seed production are protected in greenhouses.

Seed production details do not explain where pumpkin production is concentrated.

Answer: (D)

guddo · Answer

No, because E is about where  seed  is produced, not where the pumpkins we care about are produced. The “discrepancy” is about  pumpkin production  being concentrated in cold winter regions despite  frost risk to pumpkin crops .

Even if seeds are grown in greenhouses, that does not explain why pumpkin crops are concentrated in those risky regions. E fixes a different issue (seed supply), not the main one (why grow the pumpkins there).

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