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Several energy alternative research programs have recently suffered a variety of setbacks, particularly among larger scale research programs. Those larger scale failures also tend to involve a greater financial loss. Therefore, larger scale research programs should be phased out in favor of multiple smaller ones.
Which one of the following, if true, provides the most support for the reasoning above?
A. Larger scale energy research programs are more likely to uncover a relevant breakthrough, while smaller projects can investigate more aspects of energy generation and storage, though less thoroughly.
B. It is just as easy to adjust, and even abandon small programs as it is with large ones.
C. The cost of starting a new energy research program increases every year.
D. Project planners tend to favor work on smaller programs rather than larger ones.
E. Larger scale energy research programs are more likely to fail and so correspondingly involve greater financial risk than a comparably scaled collection of smaller programs.
OA E
Source: EMPOWERgmat
Which one of the following, if true, provides the most support for the reasoning above?
A. Larger scale energy research programs are more likely to uncover a relevant breakthrough, while smaller projects can investigate more aspects of energy generation and storage, though less thoroughly.
B. It is just as easy to adjust, and even abandon small programs as it is with large ones.
C. The cost of starting a new energy research program increases every year.
D. Project planners tend to favor work on smaller programs rather than larger ones.
E. Larger scale energy research programs are more likely to fail and so correspondingly involve greater financial risk than a comparably scaled collection of smaller programs.
OA E
Source: EMPOWERgmat
