Regulations will not allow a pesticide that is toxic

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Regulations will not allow a pesticide that is toxic to humans to be used inside houses unless the pesticide will dissipate completely from the air within eight hours after its application. One test that pesticide manufacturers standardly use to determine how quickly anti-termite pesticides dissipate involves spraying the pesticides on the walls of room-sized plywood boxes and then timing its dissipation.

Which of the following would it be most useful to know in order to evaluate whether a dissipation time of just under eight hours on the manufacturers' test indicates that an antitermite pesticide that is toxic to humans obeys regulations for use in houses?

A. Whether anti-termite pesticides dissipate more slowly in furnished rooms than in plywood boxes

B. Whether people who apply anti-termite pesticide standardly wear protective equipment that prevents them from being exposed to the pesticide

C. Whether people whose house is being treated with anti-termite pesticide generally know that they should remain out of their house during the hours immediately after the pesticide's application

D. Whether there are anti-termite pesticides that are toxic to humans that, when subjected to the manufacturers' test, dissipate completely from the air in the boxes in well under eight hours

E. Whether anti-termite pesticides that are not toxic to humans tend to take longer to dissipate than those that are toxic

OA:A

Can somebody explain the logic? Why D is wrong?
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by gmatmachoman » Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:08 pm
The point of concern would be the " rate of dissipation of the pesticide in Plywood box & in furnished room".
If the rates of dissipation are same in both the cases ,then manufacturer's tests are inline with the regulation & could be mapped accordingly.

If the rate of dissipation in plywood box is greater than rate of dissipation in Furnished room then those data cannot be mapped & may not abide the regulations. It would be like comparing apples & oranges.

So Option A opens up the right issue of " Whether anti-termite pesticides dissipate more slowly in furnished rooms than in plywood boxes"

Coming to D:
As per the argument Regulations quantify Toxicity in terms of "rate of dissipation".There are no other means to determine toxicity.

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by Testluv » Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:47 am
Fantastic reasoning: you really are a gmatMACHOman !! ;)
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by gmatmachoman » Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:09 am
Testluv wrote:Fantastic reasoning: you really are a gmatMACHOman !! ;)

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