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by sogmat » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:47 pm
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.

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Re: popcorns

by lunarpower » Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:11 am
sogmat wrote: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.

OA D

please provide reasoning for ur answers
remember, you're looking for the answer that HAS to be true.

the passage says:
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.
if this is true, then the microwave popcorn accounts for more money than do ALL other microwave food products TOGETHER. this is what "more than half" means.

since, according to the passage, microwave popcorn takes 3 minutes to cook, it follows that more than half of all $ spent on microwave food is spent on products that take 3 minutes to cook.
since 3 minutes falls into the "3 minutes or less" category, statement (d) is satisfied.

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Re: popcorns

by lunarpower » Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:14 am
other answers:
(A) No single brand of microwave popcorn accounts for a large share of microwave food product sales.
not necessarily true. it is perfectly possible that one of the 75 brands has the lion's share of sales, and that the other 74 brands have close to zero sales.

(B) There are more brands of microwave popcorn on the market than there are of any other microwave food product.
no evidence.

we know that more money is made from popcorn than from other products, but that is unrelated to the number of different products available.

(C) By volume, more microwave popcorn is sold than is conventional popcorn.
we have no data on volume.

(E) Of the total number of microwave food products on the market, most are microwave popcorn products.
we don't have any information about the number of other products. same problem as (b).
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by ManSab » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:32 am
thanks lunarpower.
Beautifully explained..!!
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by micheal_kr » Sun May 15, 2016 10:49 pm
I like the explanation on D.
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