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by gmat009 » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:37 pm
In the United States, vacationers account for more than half of all visitors to what are technically called “pure aquariums” but for fewer than one quarter of all visitors to zoos, which usually include a “zoo aquarium” of relatively modest scope.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to account for the difference described above between visitors to zoos and visitors to pure aquariums?
(A) In cities that have both a zoo and a pure aquarium, local residents are twice as likely to visit the aquarium as they are to visit the zoo.
(B) Virtually all large metropolitan areas have zoos, whereas only a few large metropolitan areas have pure aquariums.
(C) Over the last ten years, newly constructed pure aquariums have outnumbered newly established zoos by a factor of two to one.
(D) People who visit a zoo in a given year are two times more likely to visit a pure aquarium that year than are people who do not visit a zoo.
(E) The zoo aquariums of zoos that are in the same city as a pure aquarium tend to be smaller than the aquariums of zoos that have no pure aquarium nearby.
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by Mani_mba » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:52 pm
Is it D ?

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by gmat009 » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:16 am
OA is B

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by aj5105 » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:34 am
explanation please?

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by stop@800 » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:16 am
we need to find the reasong for this difference

we need to give justification that why ppl goto "pure Aq" more than they goto zoo
I think D clearly justifies this.


IMO
B actually weakens the points
it says thr are more zoos
so more ppl shud goto zoo


What you guys say?

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by amitabhprasad » Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:47 pm
The passage clearly talks about vacationers and if the city has a "Zoo"the people are more likely to vist places that has aq.
of all the choice I think "B" provides the reason why on vacation people will visit aq then to zoo.

Hope this explains.

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by stop@800 » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:54 am
amitabhprasad wrote:The passage clearly talks about vacationers and if the city has a "Zoo"the people are more likely to vist places that has aq.
of all the choice I think "B" provides the reason why on vacation people will visit aq then to zoo.

Hope this explains.
Correct amitabhprasad,
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by bleacherseat » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:51 pm
IMO it wont be B . It requires you to assume that Vacationers are from metropolitan areas.

C strikes me as right. Since there are more pure AQ than Zoos 2:1 hence the vacationers end up going to Pure AQ instead of zoo.

I guess the answer is demands and explaination of statistics cited.

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by mjjking » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:32 pm
IMO B, CLEARLY.
It says that only a few large metropolitan areas have acquariums (pure ones) while almost every big city have zoos. Hence, many people have to go to other places to see acquariums, falling into the vacationer category. This explains why vacationers account for half of the visitors of pure acquarium, while zoo visitors are vacationer only for 1/4.
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by Jatinder » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:28 pm
Well ! mjjking has a point.

But still i feel it should be D

A: OOS , we are talking about vacationers, not local residents
B: Could be, but i guess we have to assume a lot for this
C: its talks about newly constructed only, what about the established ones, Moreover, it does not talk about people desire. So you may have 100 of acquariums whith no people intending to visit them
D: Seems correct as follows

People who visit a zoo in a given year are two times more likely to visit a pure aquarium that year than are people who do not visit a zoo.

earlier i thought the comparison is faulty, and if it would have been
"People who visit a zoo in a given year are two times more likely to visit a pure aquarium"

then it would be a clear winner @ first sight.

the original choice create 2 cases
1) people , who do not visit a zoo, are the ones who do not go to pure acquriums either. ....GOOD
2) people , who do not visit a zoo, are the ones who go to pure acquriums .....Very GOOD

so in both the cases, it supports the stem.

E) size is OOS

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by lunarpower » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:22 am
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by lunarpower » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:24 am
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by lunarpower » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:24 am
yeah, this one is definitely (b).

a couple of comments:

* the actual numbers of visitors to zoos and pure aquariums are completely irrelevant.
a few of the posters above seem to think that this problem somehow says the aquariums have more visitors than do the zoos. that's not at all true.
look back at the problem: it's solely concerned with the fraction of zoo visitors who are on vacation - i.e., from out of town - vs. the fraction of aquarium visitors who are on vacation (i.e., from out of town).


therefore:
* we're looking for a REASON WHY AQUARIUM VISITORS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE FROM OUT-OF-TOWN.
after all, this is the ONLY relevant difference here.

* the only answer choice that even comes close to addressing this issue is (b). if the aquariums are located in only a few areas, then they will only be accessible to a few "locals"; the rest of the visitors will have to travel to go to them. by contrast, if most areas have zoos, then zoo visitors will have little need to travel; they can just go to their local zoo.

* none of the other choices are relevant to the distinction between vacationers (from out of town) and non-vacationers.

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when i originally read the problem statement (before i'd read the answer choices), i thought the answer was going to say "pure aquariums are generally located in resort areas". that answer choice isn't there, but it would also provide a very good reason for most pure-aquarium visitors to be from out of town.
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by niraj_a » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:27 am
B for sure

if a city already has zoos, then they will be more likely to visit the small number of aquariums elsewhere, which jives well with the "vacationer" condition in the stem.

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by peter.p.81 » Wed May 11, 2016 3:23 am
I must admit that B seems to be the answer. What's OA?