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Goronia cheese

by ssgmatter » Wed May 05, 2010 7:09 am
Goronian lawmaker: Goronia's Cheese Importation Board, the agency responsible for inspecting all wholesale shipments of cheese entering Goronia from abroad and rejecting shipments that fail to meet specified standards, rejects about one percent of the cheese that it inspects. Since the health consequences and associated costs of not rejecting that one percent would be negligible, whereas the cost of maintaining the agency is not, the agency's cost clearly outweighs the benefits it provides.

Knowing the answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the lawmaker's argument?

A. Are any of the types of cheeses that are imported into Goronia also produced in Goronia?
B. Has the Cheese Importation Board, over the last several years, reduced its operating costs by eliminating inefficiencies within the agency itself?
C. Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese Importation Board deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?
D. Are there any exporters of cheese to Goronia whose merchandise is never rejected by the Cheese Importation Board?
E. How is the cheese rejected by the Cheese Importation Board disposed of?

Any thoughts on this one??.....Not very clear
My analysis:
A--> any of the types of cheeses--->OOS
B--> Inefficiencise in the agency-->not related to the argument-->so it is out
C-->
D-->not related who cares!
E-->who cares how it is disposed off so it is out!

If we look at C and consider two cases:

Case 1: Yes rejection of cheese would deter exporters so that means ----------------------???

Case 2: Rejection of cheese will not deter exporters so that means ---------------------??

Experts please help me fill after means in both the cases above for option C

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by gsinghal » Wed May 05, 2010 7:54 am
IMO C....all other seems incorrect..

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by kevincanspain » Wed May 05, 2010 8:01 am
I get the impression that you read arguments but don't really take time to internalize them. People who fail to internalize the argument must resort to POE, which is very time consuming.

Here, the lawmaker is basically saying:

This board costs too much in relation to the benefits it provides, since it rejects only one percent of the cheese imports it inspects.

This would be similar to saying: We monitor GMAT candidates by video and take their palmprints, measures that entail considerable cost. However, since no student has been caught cheating on the GMAT in the past six months, we could do away with these security measures and thus cut the exam fees in half!

Similarly, since nobody has robbed a bank this year in Cleardale, that Cleardale banks employ security guards shows that these banks are not very concerned about streamlining costs.
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by ssgmatter » Wed May 05, 2010 8:12 am
kevincanspain wrote:I get the impression that you read arugments but don't really take time to internalize them. People who fail to internalize the argument must resort to POE, which is very time consuming.

Here, the lawmaker is basically saying:

This board costs too much in relation to the benefits it provides, since it rejects only one percent of the cheese imports it inspects.

This would be similar to saying: We monitor GMAT candidates by video and take their palmprints, measures that entail considerable cost. However, since no student has been caught cheating on the GMAT in the past six months, we could do away with these security measures and thus cut the exam fees in half!
Thankyou Kevin for those thoughts.

I can understand the GMAT analogy that you used to explain this question. However, I am still not very clear on the question.....Please elaborate a bit more on this and the internalization process flow.....

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by kevincanspain » Wed May 05, 2010 9:58 am
Is the Board a waste of money or is does its mere existence discourage (deter) cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese?

Similarly, are all GMAT test-takers honest people or do the security measures prevent people from even trying to cheat?


Would the absence of security guards at banks encourage people to try to rob these banks?
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by sumanr84 » Wed May 05, 2010 10:12 am
kevincanspain wrote:Is the Board a waste of money or is does its mere existence discourage (deter) cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese?

Similarly, are all GMAT test-takers honest people or do the security measures prevent people from even trying to cheat?


Would the absence of security guards at banks encourage people to try to rob these banks?
You really simplified this question very much. I liked the examples you quoted to understand the nature of problem.
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