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Microwave popcorns

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by g000fy » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:07 am
There are about 75 brands of microwave popcorn on the market; altogether, they account for a little over half of the money from sales of microwave food products. It takes three minutes to pop corn in the microwave, compared to seven minutes to pop corn conventionally. Yet by weight, microwave popcorn typically costs over five times as much as conventional popcorn. Judging by the popularity of microwave popcorn, many people are willing to pay a high price for just a little additional convenience.

If the statements in the passage are true, which one of the following must also be true?
(A) No single brand of microwave popcorn accounts for a large share of microwave food product sales.
(B) There are more brands of microwave popcorn on the market than there are of any other microwave food product.
(C) By volume, more microwave popcorn is sold than is conventional popcorn.
(D) More money is spent on microwave food products that take three minutes or less to cook than on microwave food products that take longer to cook.
(E) Of the total number of microwave food products on the market, most are microwave popcorn products.

Source - Aristotle CR / LSAT

OA - D
Last edited by g000fy on Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:12 am, edited 1 time in total.
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by shovan85 » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:53 am
IMO D

All seem incorrect :(. Money >50% is mentioned in the first line so can be corelated with More money is spent on microwave food products that take three minutes or less. But presence of less makes other products than popcorn. If they are not popcorn product then this money can be treated as an additional to little more than half mentioned in the first line
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by Testluv » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:08 pm
The above poster's reasoning is sound--the correct answer is certainly choice D for the reasons the above poster describes.

In a must be true type of question, the right answer is something that must be true based on one or more statements in the passage. It need not integrate every statement in the passage.

We can use the Kaplan denial test in any question where the right answer must be true (whether it is necessary assumption or inference/must be true).

Applied here: The question stem instructed us to treat the statements in the passage as true. Yet, if choice D were false then the second half of the first sentence would also become false. Thus, choice D must be true. (If more than half of all money spent on ALL microwave food goes to microwave popcorn, and if microwave popcorn takes 3 minutes to cook, then it must be true that more microwave food money is spent on products that take 3 or less minutes to cook than those that take longer.)
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by shovan85 » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:23 pm
Testluv wrote:The above poster's reasoning is sound--the correct answer is certainly choice D for the reasons the above poster describes.

In a must be true type of question, the right answer is something that must be true based on one or more statements in the passage. It need not integrate every statement in the passage.

We can use the Kaplan denial test in any question where the right answer must be true (whether it is necessary assumption or inference/must be true).

Applied here: The question stem instructed us to treat the statements in the passage as true. Yet, if choice D were false then the second half of the first sentence would also become false. Thus, choice D must be true. (If more than half of all money spent on ALL microwave food goes to microwave popcorn, and if microwave popcorn takes 3 minutes to cook, then it must be true that more microwave food money is spent on products that take 3 or less minutes to cook than those that take longer.)
How true!! thanks!! If we negate D its it conflicts the premises clearly. Thanks this can be handy when multiple options seem correct .
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by Yanat » Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:39 pm
IMO it is D
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:31 am
its more a marketing question than gmat question.

you can spend more for more efficient equipment
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by g000fy » Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:12 am
OA updated
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by abhi.genx7 » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:44 am
Lovely explanation . Went with C but understood why D is better
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