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Which of the following, if true, most helps to account for the difference described above between visitors to zoos and visitors to pure aquariums?

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C
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D
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20%
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by charu_mahajan » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:55 am
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 Sam_hellboy » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:33 pm
IMO D

whats the OA??

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by viveksingh222 » Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:35 am
Stuck b/t B & D...need help..

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by charu_mahajan » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:34 pm
OA B.
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by challenger63 » Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:39 am
This one is a very tough question, which requires a lot of assuming.
I answered it correctly but spent >5 minutes. What is the source of the question?

Answer should be B
charu_mahajan wrote: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?
charu_mahajan wrote: (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.
>> it could be only two small cities which do not influence overall national statistics.
charu_mahajan wrote: (B) Virtually all large metropolitan areas have zoos, whereas only a few large metropolitan areas have pure aquariums.
>> POE gave me this answer. I think, logic here is that for vacation, in general, vacationers choose to visit something new such as pure aquariums not zoo, which they already have seen.
Large metropolitan areas will constitute the majority of population.
charu_mahajan wrote: (C) Over the last ten years, newly constructed pure aquariums have outnumbered newly established zoos by a factor of two to one.
>> It could be only 2 new aquariums while 1 zoo. Answer C means nothing.
charu_mahajan wrote: (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.
>> So, what? Even if all visitors of ZOO visited Pure Aquarium, it would not explain distribution (zoo = less than 1/4, aquarium = more than 1/2).
charu_mahajan wrote: (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.
>> It could be an answer because it is explaining why people ignore zoo's aquariums.
But the problem of this answer is that there may be only two small cities in the whole US where both "zoo" and "aquarium" located.
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