Twenty years ago, 30,000 young residents of Springfield were asked to

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Twenty years ago, 30,000 young residents of Springfield were asked to rank the following priorities of the city government—bringing down the average rent, improving public health, improving road safety, and expanding public transportation—in order of how the priorities affected the residents. Recently, a follow-up to this survey indicated that a majority of those same people rank bringing down the average rent lower on the list now than they did twenty years ago. However, the majority of respondents also agree that the rents in most parts of the city have grown much faster than those in other neighboring cities over the past twenty years.

Which of the following, if true, helps to explain the apparent discrepancy?

A. Most who participated in the follow-up survey have become homeowners in the last twenty years.
B. Many of the governmental priorities that matter the most to people are not featured as categories on either survey.
C. Twenty years ago, some of the people surveyed paid rents similar to those paid by many others.
D. At the time of the recent survey, some of the people surveyed said they did not consider bringing down the average rent a priority.
E. Many who responded to the follow-up survey claim that they find the city’s roads much safer now than they did twenty years ago.

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Adit_ · Answer

This IMO is a close replica of the OG 25-26 question. Can't exactly recall what that was but I think it was about retirement plans and the question was about paradox as well.

Pre thinking:
1) The rank could have been lower because they could have gotten richer(faster than the rate of rent increase) now that it didn't matter anymore.
2) They became homeowners now, so the average now wouldn't be bothered about rent anymore.

Keeping these two in mind we can quickly skim through the options and see option A perfectly complies with 2) of our prethinking.

Answer:  Option A

vasu1104 · Answer

20 years ago residents were asked to rank 4 priority. 
 now follow up to that, residents ranks bringing down the rent at the bottom of list compared to twenty years ago. 
 at the same time rent has grown much faster than other nearby cities.

A if those same people are not homeowners then obviously they are not concerned about the rent anymore so they will keep that at lower priority list. so this solves the paradox 
 B this is completely out of scope. 
 C who cares about that. we need to know why there is discrepancy between low rank and high rank. 
 D not interested in their consideration. 
 E out of scope.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Video explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPemiZNThW4

laborumplaceat · Answer

The argument talk about changing priorities by people. 20 years earlier majority were more concerned with the higher average rent than they are now. 
This can be resolved by statement A.
A: Correct -a s if they become homeowners, they don't have to pay rent - so high rent is not that much of a priority for them.
B: Mention of other categories is out of scope.
C: This does not explain why a higher rent (compared to 20 years ago) is not a major concern now
D: Argument talk about "most people" who gave a higher priority to bringing down rent 20 yrs ago
E: Out of Scope

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