Some good cooks are gourmet cooks who pride themselves on always using extravagantly rich ingredients in elaborate recipes. Some good cooks can be characterized as fast-food cooks. They may use rich ingredients as long as the recipes are easy to follow and take little time. Other good cooks are health food enthusiasts, who are concerned primarily with the nutritional value of food. But even though not all good cooks are big eaters, they all enjoy preparing and serving food.
If the information in the passage is true, which one of the following CANNOT be true?
(A) Most good cooks do not use extravagantly rich ingredients.
(B) Everyone who enjoys preparing and serving food is a good cook.
(C) More good cooks who use extravagantly rich ingredients are big eaters than are good cooks who do not use such ingredients.
(D) There are fewer good cooks who enjoy serving and preparing food than there are good cooks who are big eaters.
(E) Gourmet cooks, fast-food cooks, and cooks who are health food enthusiasts are all big eaters.
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Answer should be D. I used a venn diagram since there are so many damn categories.
The most important line is this:
"But even though not all good cooks are big eaters, they all enjoy preparing and serving food."
--> All good cooks enjoy preparing and serving food, but not all of them are not big eaters
D) There are fewer good cooks who enjoy serving and preparing food than there are good cooks who are big eaters.
--> This is impossible since the statement above indicates all good cooks enjoy serving and preparing food and not all are big eaters (meaning at least 1 is not a big eater). So if there are G good cooks, there are G who enjoy serving and preparing while there are at most G-1 good cooks who are big eaters.
The most important line is this:
"But even though not all good cooks are big eaters, they all enjoy preparing and serving food."
--> All good cooks enjoy preparing and serving food, but not all of them are not big eaters
D) There are fewer good cooks who enjoy serving and preparing food than there are good cooks who are big eaters.
--> This is impossible since the statement above indicates all good cooks enjoy serving and preparing food and not all are big eaters (meaning at least 1 is not a big eater). So if there are G good cooks, there are G who enjoy serving and preparing while there are at most G-1 good cooks who are big eaters.
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Good catch.
Sometimes I get reading quickly and gloss over the details in each answer. I would have guessed E on the test; but it obviously D.
Sometimes I get reading quickly and gloss over the details in each answer. I would have guessed E on the test; but it obviously D.
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