I am not sure what you are asking here? Are you asking me why can't the lower grades refer to say 7th grade? I could ask you why in E couldn't "young students" be freshmen in high school? I think elementary school is lot closer to lower grades than "young freshmen" in high school. Not to say that studies are often wrong and we have no idea whether or not "objects"tested in those studies had bookbags as subjects.reply2spg wrote:you answered me number 2 issue, what about number 1 issue?
ok agree that Kindergartners and 1-6 grades goes to elementry school. By looking at C how can you tell for sure that 6th grade students are not loosing dark colored bags in school?
jaiti wrote:reply2spg wrote:I do not agree with you on this. C says number of things, which are not clear.
1. It says backpacks in the lost-and-found at elementary schools are dark-colored - how can you make out that only lower grade students are missing their bags?
2. Passage does not talk about whether it is elementry school, graduate school or kinder garten? But C is limiting us only to elementry school.
These 2 issues are unanswered, therefore, I don't think C is correct.
Can we have OA for this.
jaiti wrote:Ok. Then let me ask you this. If the option C said that most of the bookbags lost were bright colored wouldn't that make teachers argument fall apart. Teacher says that the bags should be bright colored in order for kids not to lose them. If C weren't true it would cause the teachers argument to fall apart a lot more then, E in which "studies" and "objects" are listed. I could be wrong very well though. Why doesn't the OP post the OA so that we can all see.beatthegmatinsept wrote:I was contemplating between C and E myself.jaiti wrote:I am wondering if all of you are maybe wrong on this one. Number one rule for streghtening an argument is to bring something new to the passage, remove another possibility per say. Here C does that exactly. If the bookbags in lost and found were mostly bright colored the teacher's argument would fall apart. However since most of the bookbags lost are dark colored, we removed a possibility of another event occuring, therefore strenghtening an argument.
But I eliminated C because even though it says that most of the lost bags are grey in color, we can't assume that had these bags been bright colored they won't have been lost by the kids. E on the other hand is that assumption that brighter colored bags are harder to lose by young kids. So I'd go for E.
I don't think that lower grades can refer to anything but elementary schools. Kindergartners and 1-6 grades go to the same school. You think that "studies" and "objects" and "young students" in E are clearer?
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