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air pollution

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by ketkoag » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:56 am
Houses built during the last ten years have been found to contain indoor air pollution at levels that are, on average, much higher than the levels found in older houses. The reason air-pollution levels are higher in the newer houses is that many such houses are built near the sites of old waste dumps or where automobile emissions are heavy.
Which of the following, if true, calls into question the explanation above?
(A) Many new houses are built with air-filtration systems that remove from the house pollutants that are generated indoors.
(B) The easing of standards for smokestack emissions has led to an increase in air-pollution levels in homes.
(C) New houses built in secluded rural areas are relatively free of air pollutants.
(D) Warm-weather conditions tend to slow down the movement of air, thus keeping pollution trapped near its source.
(E) Pressboard, an inexpensive new plywood substitute now often used in the construction of houses, emits the pollutant formaldehyde into the house.
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Source: — Critical Reasoning |

mouflon

by ketkoag » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:57 am
The wild mouflon sheep of the island of Corsica are direct descendants of sheep that escaped from domestication on the island 8,000 years ago. They therefore provide archaeologists with a picture of what some early domesticated sheep looked like, before the deliberate selective breeding that produced modern domesticated sheep began.
The argument above makes which of the following assumptions?
(A) The domesticated sheep of 8,000 years ago were quite dissimilar from the wild sheep of the time.
(B) There are no other existing breeds of sheep that escaped from domestication at about the same time as the forebears of the mouflon.
(C) Modern domesticated sheep are direct descendants of sheep that were wild 8,000 years ago.
(D) Mouflon sheep are more similar to their forebears of 8,000 years ago than modern domesticated sheep are to theirs.
(E) The climate of Corsica has not changed at all in the last 8,000 years.
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by ketkoag » Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:34 am
ohh i am sorry!! i've posted 2 questions in a single post by mistake..
let me move the 2nd question to a new post.
You may consider only the first question for this post.
thanks.. :oops:
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Re: air pollution

by iamcste » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:34 am
ketkoag wrote:Houses built during the last ten years have been found to contain indoor air pollution at levels that are, on average, much higher than the levels found in older houses. The reason air-pollution levels are higher in the newer houses is that many such houses are built near the sites of old waste dumps or where automobile emissions are heavy.
Which of the following, if true, calls into question the explanation above?
(A) Many new houses are built with air-filtration systems that remove from the house pollutants that are generated indoors.
(B) The easing of standards for smokestack emissions has led to an increase in air-pollution levels in homes.
(C) New houses built in secluded rural areas are relatively free of air pollutants.
(D) Warm-weather conditions tend to slow down the movement of air, thus keeping pollution trapped near its source.
(E) Pressboard, an inexpensive new plywood substitute now often used in the construction of houses, emits the pollutant formaldehyde into the house.
IMO E

***edited***

E gives us the right alternative reason for the same.
Last edited by iamcste on Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
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by dmateer25 » Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:14 am
I will go with E on this one.

We are looking for an alternative reason for the high pollution levels in new houses.


E) Pressboard, an inexpensive new plywood substitute now often used in the construction of houses, emits the pollutant formaldehyde into the house.

If this is used in the construction of new houses, this would explain why the pollution level is higher in new houses and thus calls into question the conclusion that was made.
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by scoobydooby » Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:26 am
i like E

A. removal of indoor pollution is out of scope

B. too general. talks of air pollution in homes at large

C. exceptional case. doesnt weaken that dumps and auto emissions cause indoor pollution

D. out of scope. doesnt talk of indoor air pollution

E. explains an alternative cause of indoor air pollution and weakens the argument that dumps and auto emission causes indoor pollution
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by mehravikas » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:25 pm
E as it defines an alternative reasoning....
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by ashley.com » Sun May 15, 2016 3:44 am
E is the best in this case
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