1000 CR Test 11 # 19

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1000 CR Test 11 # 19

by jrbrown2 » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:48 am
It is widely assumed that a museum is helped financially when a generous patron donates a potential exhibit. In truth, however, donated objects require storage space, which is not free, and routine conservation, which is rather expensive. Therefore, such gifts exacerbate rather than lighten the demands made on a museum’s financial resources.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

(A) To keep patrons well disposed, a museum will find it advisable to put at least some donated objects on exhibit rather than merely in storage.
(B) The people who are most likely to donate valuable objects to a museum are also the people who are most likely to make cash gifts to it.
(C) A museum cannot save money by resorting to cheap storage under less than adequate conditions, because so doing would drive up the cost of conservation.
(D) Patrons expect a museum to keep donated objects in its possession rather than to raise cash by selling them.
(E) Objects donated by a patron to a museum are often of such importance that the museum would be obliged to add them to its collection through purchase if necessary.

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by blah45 » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:26 am
I would go with (C).

If the museum do not update their collection with a new objects then the old objects curretnly stored in the museum may drive the cost of conservation anyway.

what's the OA?

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by jrbrown2 » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:15 am
OA is not C....Try again

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by givemeanid » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:27 am
The main argument centers around donations that seem to exacerbate rather than lighten the demands on financial resources. (E) suggests that these donations are quite important and museum would be obliged to buy them if the objects were not donated. So, in essence, museum's financial resources are actually saved by not having to buy these objects. This weakens the argument.

What is OA?
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Re: 1000 CR Test 11 # 19

by gsc » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:33 pm
jrbrown2 wrote:It is widely assumed that a museum is helped financially when a generous patron donates a potential exhibit. In truth, however, donated objects require storage space, which is not free, and routine conservation, which is rather expensive. Therefore, such gifts exacerbate rather than lighten the demands made on a museum’s financial resources.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

(A) To keep patrons well disposed, a museum will find it advisable to put at least some donated objects on exhibit rather than merely in storage.
(B) The people who are most likely to donate valuable objects to a museum are also the people who are most likely to make cash gifts to it.
(C) A museum cannot save money by resorting to cheap storage under less than adequate conditions, because so doing would drive up the cost of conservation.
(D) Patrons expect a museum to keep donated objects in its possession rather than to raise cash by selling them.
(E) Objects donated by a patron to a museum are often of such importance that the museum would be obliged to add them to its collection through purchase if necessary.

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it sould be E because museum will be helped more if tey receive patrons they otherwise have to buy. that way they will not haveto keep them in storage and it will value to them

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by jrbrown2 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:22 am
OA is E...great explanations

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by nicolette » Tue May 03, 2016 3:18 am
I'm going with E too..

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by nicolette » Tue May 03, 2016 3:19 am
I'm going with E too..