Assumption Question

800 · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: Assumption Question

The energy an animal must expend to move uphill is proportional to its body weight,whereas the animal's energy output available to perform this task is proportional to its surface area. this is the reason that small animals, like squirrels, can run up a tree trunk almost as fast as they can move on the level ground, whereas large animals tend to slow down when they are moving uphill

which one of the following is an assumption on which the explanation above depends

A) The amount of energy needed to move uphill is no greater for large scale animals than it is for small animals

B) small animals can move more rapidly than large animals can

C)the ratio of surface area to body weight is smaller in large animals than it is in small animals

D)there is little variation in the ratio of energy output to body weight among animals

E) the amount of energy needed to run at a given speed is proportional to the surface area of the running animal

800 · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

any takers for this question...

pahwa · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

Here, 2 factors are being discussed.
1. Body weight(BW) and Surface area (SA)
2. Energy Expend(EE) and Energy available(EA)

EE is proportional to BW
EA is proportional to SA

Look at C, it says, BW>SA for large animals and viceversa for small. This looks fine to Me.

samirpandeyit62 · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:59 am Post subject:

Agree it should be C

800 · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys

OA : C