Critical Reasoning

Hi All...

Need feedback in analysing below one & getting at right answer.


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.

must be B....more cities have zoos ....so more local ppl going to zoo..

IMO it's D. Pls post OA.

I am on D too.
I think its mainly b/w A and D. A can be discarded coz it does not account for vacationers from all over the places rather talks only about local natives of the city. D talks in more generalized term "people".

xyztroy wrote:must be B....more cities have zoos ....so more local ppl going to zoo..

Can't be "B" because the argument talks about the proportion of visitors to the zoo and the Aquarium. Not the number of visitors...so it doesn't really matter how many zoos or aquariums there are in a given city.

Frnds ..


Ans . is B .. I think why vacationers are visiting to Pure Aquariums because there nos are few than zoos in other metropoitans.

Hi all,
I think the answer is D. Becsuse ti is only concerned with the proportion of visitors.

D?

IMO : B

The argument is saying for vacationers. So with the assumption that vacationers mean the person who have come from out of the city, B holds true.

IMO D
If vacationers mean anybody visiting to zoo.

paes wrote:IMO : B

The argument is saying for vacationers. So with the assumption that vacationers mean the person who have come from out of the city, B holds true.

IMO D
If vacationers mean anybody visiting to zoo.

But B doesn't say anything about visitors....