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Confusing CR

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by thestartupguy » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:38 am
People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop
animal-induced allergies, a significant percentage of which are quite serious. In a
survey of current employees in major zoos, about 30 percent had animal-induced
allergies. However, a zoo employee who develops a serious animal-induced allergy
is very likely to switch to some other occupation.
Which of the following hypotheses receives the strongest support from the
information given?


A. The incidence of serious animal-induced allergies among current zoo
employees is lower than that among the general population.
B. Zoo employees tend to develop animal-induced allergies that are more serious
than those of other people who spend equally large amounts of time with
animals.
C. Exposure to domestic pets is, on the whole, less likely to cause
animal-induced allergy than is exposure to the kinds of animals that are kept
in zoos.
D. There is no occupation for which the risk of developing an animal-induced
allergy is higher than 30 percent.
E. Among members of the general population who have spent as much time with
animals as zoo employees typically have, the percentage with animal-induced
allergies is significantly more than 30 percent.

[spoiler]IMO:E by POE.I am not sure whether E is correct. What do you guys think?[/spoiler]
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by ankita1709 » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:41 am
msr4mba wrote:People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop
animal-induced allergies, a significant percentage of which are quite serious. In a
survey of current employees in major zoos, about 30 percent had animal-induced
allergies. However, a zoo employee who develops a serious animal-induced allergy
is very likely to switch to some other occupation.
Which of the following hypotheses receives the strongest support from the
information given?


A. The incidence of serious animal-induced allergies among current zoo
employees is lower than that among the general population.
B. Zoo employees tend to develop animal-induced allergies that are more serious
than those of other people who spend equally large amounts of time with
animals.
C. Exposure to domestic pets is, on the whole, less likely to cause
animal-induced allergy than is exposure to the kinds of animals that are kept
in zoos.
D. There is no occupation for which the risk of developing an animal-induced
allergy is higher than 30 percent.
E. Among members of the general population who have spent as much time with
animals as zoo employees typically have, the percentage with animal-induced
allergies is significantly more than 30 percent.

[spoiler]IMO:E by POE.I am not sure whether E is correct. What do you guys think?[/spoiler]
Seriously this is very confusing.
Can you please explain what the question is asking for? Is it asking the statement which strengthen the argument or the assumption.
Ankita
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by thestartupguy » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:43 am
it's Must be True type CR
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by Kasia@EconomistGMAT » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:55 am
You are supposed to choose which of the answers given is best supported by the premises provided in the text of the task.
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by thestartupguy » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:21 am
Kasia@MasterGMAT wrote:You are supposed to choose which of the answers given is best supported by the premises provided in the text of the task.
Kasia - could you pls explain how to solve this. Is option E correct?
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by umeshpatil » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:50 pm
People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop
animal-induced allergies, a significant percentage of which are quite serious. In a
survey of current employees in major zoos, about 30 percent had animal-induced
allergies. However, a zoo employee who develops a serious animal-induced allergy
is very likely to switch to some other occupation.
Which of the following hypotheses receives the strongest support from the
information given?


A. The incidence of serious animal-induced allergies among current zoo
employees is lower than that among the general population.
-> It is somewhat wrong or not mentioned in the argument. animal induced allergies should be higher among zoo employees than general population.

B. Zoo employees tend to develop animal-induced allergies that are more serious
than those of other people who spend equally large amounts of time with
animals.
-->As per given info,Significant percentage of allergies are quite serious.

C. Exposure to domestic pets is, on the whole, less likely to cause
animal-induced allergy than is exposure to the kinds of animals that are kept
in zoos.
-> We are considering the occupation and contact with animals.

D. There is no occupation for which the risk of developing an animal-induced
allergy is higher than 30 percent.
-> It is not mentioned anywhere. It may be wrong. Zoo employee are switching to the occupation, where probability is lower than 30%.

E. Among members of the general population who have spent as much time with
animals as zoo employees typically have, the percentage with animal-induced
allergies is significantly more than 30 percent.
--> It would be more probably true.
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by altyni » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:50 pm
I would bet for A, because people OFTEN develop a-i allergie (which is more than 30%) from which significant amount sew serious which is more than subset of 30%. So incidence in Zoo is lower.

What is wrong with E? I would question "as much time with animals"
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by GMAT Kolaveri » Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:29 am
Check Ron's explanation.
https://www.beatthegmat.com/allergies-t49801.html
we have the following:
* 30% of zoo employees have severe animal allergies;
* this is the percentage even though there is high attrition of such employees (i.e., lots of them leave the profession).

taken together, these two statements provide a strong argument that a randomly drawn sample would have a proportion of such allergies higher than 30% - since 30% is the proportion that we get after a bunch of the allergy-affected employees leave zoo work.
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