Greenfield County deer!

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Greenfield County deer!

by sachindia » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:27 am
Eight years ago hunting was banned in Greenfield County on the grounds that hunting endangers public safety.
Now the deer population in the county is six times what it was before the ban. Deer are invading residential
areas, damaging property and causing motor vehicle accidents that result in serious injury to motorists. Since
there were never any hunting related injuries in the county, clearly the ban was not only unnecessary but has
created a danger to public safety that would not otherwise exist. Which one of the following, if true,
provides the strongest additional support for the conclusion above?
A. In surrounding counties, where hunting is permitted, the size of the deer population has not increased in the last
eight years.
B. Motor vehicle accidents involving deer often result in damage to the vehicle, injury to the motorist, or both.
C. When deer populations increase beyond optimal size, disease and malnutrition become more widespread among
the deer herds.
D. In residential areas in the county, many residents provide food and salt for deer.
E. Deer can cause extensive damage to ornamental shrubs and trees by chewing on twigs and saplings.

A talks about Surrounding counties.. why assume that conditions would be same in both counties??

When X causes y, we can strengthen it by saying x actually caused y which is what B does.. it says often results in accidents.. so B must be right?
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by techyrajeev » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:45 am
Sachi,

This is a common GMAT trap. if you see information of choice B is already mentioned in the argument hence Option B is not adding anything new to support the argument.

Choice A is not my favorite choice but looking at other choices, A is the best.

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by natali » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:01 am
sachindia wrote:Eight years ago hunting was banned in Greenfield County on the grounds that hunting endangers public safety.
Now the deer population in the county is six times what it was before the ban. Deer are invading residential
areas, damaging property and causing motor vehicle accidents that result in serious injury to motorists. Since
there were never any hunting related injuries in the county, clearly the ban was not only unnecessary but has
created a danger to public safety that would not otherwise exist. Which one of the following, if true,
provides the strongest additional support for the conclusion above?
A. In surrounding counties, where hunting is permitted, the size of the deer population has not increased in the last
eight years.
B. Motor vehicle accidents involving deer often result in damage to the vehicle, injury to the motorist, or both.
C. When deer populations increase beyond optimal size, disease and malnutrition become more widespread among
the deer herds.
D. In residential areas in the county, many residents provide food and salt for deer.
E. Deer can cause extensive damage to ornamental shrubs and trees by chewing on twigs and saplings.

A talks about Surrounding counties.. why assume that conditions would be same in both counties??

When X causes y, we can strengthen it by saying x actually caused y which is what B does.. it says often results in accidents.. so B must be right?
i think that you know that C, d,e is out of care,,, between a and b,b just talk about assets' damage,so b didnt talk about public safe so be is out too

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by cat4 » Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:53 am
The Logic of the ban was that hunting endangers public safety.But the author gave the argument that by banning hunting, public safety actually became endangered(when the number of deers increased) .

Option A supports the above conclusion by giving fact about a location where hunting is permitted and where deer population has not increased(public saftey is not endangered).[/quote]

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by ankit0411 » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:44 pm
sachindia wrote:Eight years ago hunting was banned in Greenfield County on the grounds that hunting endangers public safety.Now the deer population in the county is six times what it was before the ban. Deer are invading residential areas, damaging property and causing motor vehicle accidents that result in serious injury to motorists. Since there were never any hunting related injuries in the county, clearly the ban was not only unnecessary but has created a danger to public safety that would not otherwise exist. Which one of the following, if true, provides the strongest additional support for the conclusion above?

A. In surrounding counties, where hunting is permitted, the size of the deer population has not increased in the last
eight years.
B. Motor vehicle accidents involving deer often result in damage to the vehicle, injury to the motorist, or both.
C. When deer populations increase beyond optimal size, disease and malnutrition become more widespread among
the deer herds.
D. In residential areas in the county, many residents provide food and salt for deer.
E. Deer can cause extensive damage to ornamental shrubs and trees by chewing on twigs and saplings.

A talks about Surrounding counties.. why assume that conditions would be same in both counties??

When X causes y, we can strengthen it by saying x actually caused y which is what B does.. it says often results in accidents.. so B must be right?
A draws the best analogy and no other option is close to it.

B - talks about when motorists meet with an accident with the deers- how do you know the deers are causing this and the deers ONLY lead to accidents?

C- Out of scope

D- same as above

E- same as above.

This leave us with only option A
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