Critical Reasoning

Some good cooks are gourmet cooks who pride themselves on always using extravagantly rich ingredients in elaborate recipes. Some good cooks can be characterized as fast-food cooks. They may use rich ingredients as long as the recipes are easy to follow and take little time. Other good cooks are health food enthusiasts, who are concerned primarily with the nutritional value of food. But even though not all good cooks are big eaters, they all enjoy preparing and serving food.
If the information in the passage is true, which one of the following CANNOT be true?

(A) Most good cooks do not use extravagantly rich ingredients.
(B) Everyone who enjoys preparing and serving food is a good cook.
(C) More good cooks who use extravagantly rich ingredients are big eaters than are good cooks who do not use such ingredients.
(D) There are fewer good cooks who enjoy serving and preparing food than there are good cooks who are big eaters.
(E) Gourmet cooks, fast-food cooks, and cooks who are health food enthusiasts are all big eaters.

That's a nasty question with a bad subject

IMO : [spoiler]e/d[/spoiler], will go with D

The answer is clearly D

The argument states that all good cooks enjoy preparing and serving food => Clearly they are higher in numbers compared to the big eaters.

IMO E.

Not sure. Very confusing answer choices and all seems right.

IMO. B. - an extreme statement. All good cooks enjoy preparing and serving doesn't mean all those who enjoy preparing and serving are good cooks..

What was that ??

E seemed to be better of the lot...

bnair wrote:IMO. B. - an extreme statement. All good cooks enjoy preparing and serving doesn't mean all those who enjoy preparing and serving are good cooks..

Though its an extreme statement, it can also be true. There is no support for the statement that it cannot be true.

Whereas, if D were true, then, it clearly contradicts the argument that says "not all good cooks are big eaters, they all enjoy preparing and serving food.". Consider it this way (All good cooks >= all cooks who enjoy preparing and serving food > all cooks who are big eaters.

No doubt that the answer to this question is OPTION D

OPTION E -- can be right or wrong. But OPTION D can never be true because it is explicitly mentioned that even though not all good cooks are big eaters, they all enjoy preparing and serving food.

I will go for D. Please provide OA.

Thanks.

in choice A the word "most" suggests that at least 50% of good cooks do not use extravagantly rich ingredients, about which I agree as "some" is less than 50% and the other part is prevailing

choice B, "they all (good cooks) enjoy preparing and serving food" from the passage CAN POSSIBLY be translated into "Everyone who enjoys preparing and serving food is a good cook"

@bnair: the question asks for CANNOT BE TRUE and not MUST BE TRUE, hence choice B is valid

choice C, from meaning of the word "gourmet" we can read that this is valid too; these people just like tasty food

choice D, good cooks who enjoy serving and preparing food < good cooks who are big eaters ?
obviously this is not possible, as we are suggested in the passage the opposite ==> "not all good cooks are big eaters, /BUT/ they all enjoy preparing and serving food."

choice E, "Gourmet cooks, fast-food cooks, and cooks who are health food enthusiasts are all big eaters." translates NOT into "ALL Gourmet cooks, fast-food cooks, and cooks who are health food enthusiasts are big eaters" BUT into "they are just all" meaning collectively the group of cooks

my answer is D