socially necessary services

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socially necessary services

by rahul_tgsp » Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:24 am
Governments have only one response to public criticism of socially necessary services: regulation of the activity of providing those services. But governments inevitably make the activity more expensive by regulating it, and that is particularly troublesome in these times of strained financial resources. However, since public criticism of child-care services has undermined all confidence in such services, and since such services are socially necessary, the government is certain to respond.
Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
(A) The quality of child care will improve.
(B) The cost of providing child-care services will increase.
(C) The government will use funding to foster advances in child care.
(D) If public criticism of policy is strongly voiced, the government is certain to respond.
(E) If child-care services are not regulated, the cost of providing child care will not increase.

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by vineeshp » Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:01 am
(B) The cost of providing child-care services will increase.

Since they are necessary, govt will surely respond. Govt interference will increase cost.

A and C cannot be inferred. No info in the passage.
D: Cannot generalize.
E: Inverse cannot be true. Regulation will increase. No regulation does not mean does not increase.
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by AIM GMAT » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:37 pm
Govt => public criticism => regulation => expensive

Now public criticism on child care services so they are bound to become expensive as result of regulation .

IMO B.
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by HSPA » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:50 pm
Opinion: govt will regulate child services and make it expensive
Only B and C holds..I was able to infer both

what is wrong in C? what does funding mean here?
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by AIM GMAT » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:54 pm
HSPA wrote:Opinion: govt will regulate child services and make it expensive
Only B and C holds..I was able to infer both

what is wrong in C? what does funding mean here?
The argument says that Govt. is certain to respond , but it doesnt mention anything about "funding".

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by dhirajdas53 » Sat Aug 18, 2012 12:17 am
Can anyone please respond with the correct OA ? It's really tough for me to figure it out the correct answer.


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by crisro » Sun Aug 19, 2012 3:27 am
OA B

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by hjafferi » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:13 am
IMO B

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by somesh86 » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:28 am
Answer is B. Govt. responds to criticism by regulating. Regulation of a service makes it expensive. Public is criticising child-care services. Hence the'll become expensive.

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by mohan514 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:08 am
can anyone tell me how you crossed out d

though b is good enough but i dont see anything wrong with d too


please help me eliminate it

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by crisro » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:10 pm
mohan514 wrote:can anyone tell me how you crossed out d

though b is good enough but i dont see anything wrong with d too


please help me eliminate it
We don't have enough information to infer that If public criticism of policy is strongly voiced, the government is certain to respond.
We don't know whether the criticism was strongly voiced or whether the government isn't certain to respond to any criticism.

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by 7777 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:26 pm
mohan514 wrote:can anyone tell me how you crossed out d

though b is good enough but i dont see anything wrong with d too


please help me eliminate it

since public criticism of child-care services has undermined all confidence in such services, and since such services are socially necessary
If public criticism of policy is strongly voiced, the government is certain to respond.

"public criticism and necessary social service" these two components are needed for government to respond.
D only states that public criticism is strongly voiced.for it to be correct , u need to make assumption that strongly voiced public criticism is only for necessary services. this kind of assumption is dangerous.