Disturbed by growing obesity levels among citizens, the Mayor of

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Disturbed by growing obesity levels among citizens, the Mayor of Vargonia donated cookware and kitchen appliances to schools and colleges in the county that offered cooking classes. He wanted to promote better eating habits by encouraging people to cook their own food at home. Quite a few citizens of Vargonia have decided to vote for the Mayor in the upcoming elections.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage given above?

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage given above?

(A) Eating home-cooked food is the simplest way to combat obesity. 
(B) Schools and colleges that offer cooking classes were affected by a lack of cookware and kitchen appliances. 
(C) Making donations is the best way to garner political support. 
(D) Actions that benefit others sometimes have positive consequences for those who perform them. 
(E) The primary driver of citizens’ voting decisions is the donations that election candidates make to public causes.

chetan2u · Accepted Answer

M did something that he thought would improve obesity. Some people voted for him in election

Few points..
1) whatever M did was in his view a good way to tackle a problem.
2) there is no clearcut relation in two - he being voted because of his work - MEANS it is not a must relationship.
3) we can take two - doing good and being rewarded for it- to be just slightly connected

Let's see the choices..
(A) Eating home-cooked food is the simplest way to combat obesity. 
  SIMPLEST is too extreme. Nowhere the para talks of best way of reducing obesity. Rather M feels it is a way

(B) Schools and colleges that offer cooking classes were affected by a lack of cookware and kitchen appliances. 
 There is no mention of lack of funds. It is just that M helps them this way.

(C) Making donations is the best way to garner political support. 
  BEST is again too extreme

(D) Actions that benefit others sometimes have positive consequences for those who perform them. 
  Now this starts with SOMETIMES so it makes a very subtle connection between two and is correct

(E) The primary driver of citizens’ voting decisions is the donations that election candidates make to public causes.
 again PRIMARY is extreme

D

DavidTutorexamPAL · Answer

Let's break down the logic of the passage:
(1) The mayor was disturbed + he assumed that donating stuff would promote better habits + encourage cooking --> so he donated stuff to schools with cooking classes 
(2) 'quite a few' citizens will vote for Mayor

As the connection between our statements is clear, we'll use a Precise approach of inferring the answer directly.
Even without looking at the answers we can guess that the best answer is (i) 'the donation of cooking stuff will affect the eating habits at home' (as this is directly implied by the text). Another option is (ii) 'the Mayor's actions inspired the voting' but this inference requires a bit of a leap of faith as it is not expressly stated in the passage.

Looking at our answer choices, (A) is similar to (i), (C) is similar to (ii) and (D) is a mix of both. Since (A) and (C) are extreme ('simplest', 'best') and we can't actually infer something this extreme while (D) is not ('sometimes'), we'll go for (D).

(D) is our answer.

aragonn · Answer

Official Explanation: 
Answer: D

The correct answer choice must be 100% true given the information in the passage. 
(A) Is this the simplest way? We don’t know, can’t say. 
(B) Again, we don’t know; can’t say this for sure. 
(C) Is this the best way? We are not sure. 
(D) The mayor was benefitted by his action. The use of the word ’sometimes’ makes this answer choice hit the balance between ’overly specific’ and ’overly generic’. 
(E) Although this can be one of the drivers, is this the primary driver? We are not sure.

Nups1324 · Answer

Hi chetan2u I like the subtleness in your explanation as well. Haha. Hope you understand and hope you did it with purpose.

Hint - I had to look twice to realise the subtle difference. Nice one.

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vaibhav_bisht · Answer

i know all other answer are not good option we cann't infer but how can we infer option D 
action of mayor benefited him he got the few vote that cuase me to not select the answer

AbhishekP220108 · Answer

Hi  vaibhav_bisht 
Let me try to help

Disturbed by growing obesity levels among citizens, the Mayor of Vargonia donated cookware and kitchen appliances to schools and colleges in the county that offered cooking classes. He wanted to promote better eating habits by encouraging people to cook their own food at home. Quite a few citizens of Vargonia have decided to vote for the Mayor in the upcoming elections.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage given above?

We were given info about the mayor action, why he took that action,expectation from that action, and actions of citizens

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage given above?
(A) Eating home-cooked food is the simplest way to combat obesity.-simplest way we cant infer

(B) Schools and colleges that offer cooking classes were affected by a lack of cookware and kitchen appliances.-We dont know whether there is lack or not

(C) Making donations is the best way to garner political support.-Best we cant infer

(D) Actions that benefit others sometimes have positive consequences for those who perform them.- keep that, sometimes is justified

(E) The primary driver of citizens’ voting decisions is the donations that election candidates make to public causes-primary driver we cant infer

Even by elimination we reached to D

Hope this helps

guddo · Answer

Disturbed by growing obesity levels among citizens, the Mayor of Vargonia donated cookware and kitchen appliances to schools and colleges in the county that offered cooking classes. He wanted to promote better eating habits by encouraging people to cook their own food at home. Quite a few citizens of Vargonia have decided to vote for the Mayor in the upcoming elections.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage given above?

The passage says the mayor made donations intended to benefit public health, and after that, quite a few citizens decided to vote for him.  So the safest inference  is that an action intended to benefit others can also bring a positive result to the person who performs it.

(A) Eating home-cooked food is the simplest way to combat obesity.

Wrong. The passage says the mayor wanted to encourage home cooking, but it does not prove that this is the simplest way to combat obesity.

(B) Schools and colleges that offer cooking classes were affected by a lack of cookware and kitchen appliances.

Wrong. The passage says the mayor donated cookware and appliances, but it does not say the schools lacked them.

(C) Making donations is the best way to garner political support.

Wrong. Too strong. The passage gives one case of donations possibly helping the mayor, not the best method in general.

(D) Actions that benefit others sometimes have positive consequences for those who perform them.

Correct. The mayor’s donation was intended to help citizens develop better eating habits, and quite a few citizens then decided to vote for him. This supports the general idea that helpful actions can sometimes produce  positive consequences  for the person taking them.

(E) The primary driver of citizens’ voting decisions is the donations that election candidates make to public causes.

Wrong. The passage says quite a few citizens decided to vote for this mayor, but it does not say donations are the main reason citizens vote.

Answer: (D)

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