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Pepper growers

by slash » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:21 pm
Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale.
(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.
(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns.
(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years.
(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented
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by scoobydooby » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:35 pm
B?

(A) out of scope. cant infer if pepper is profitable from the passage. we know price has risen, short supply, we do not know the cost dynamics

(B) correct. pepper is in short supply. production has been less. so can infer that World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.

(C) cant infer if World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns because a part of the growers switched to cocoa due to reasons other than the bad weather

(D) cant infer if Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years. we only know pepper has been in short supply production has been less. we do not know if there was any surplus stock to start with

(E) cant infer that profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented. no cost dynamics given

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Re: Pepper growers

by logitech » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:36 pm
Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale.

(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.

(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns.

(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years.

Surplus Stocks : Delivered - Produced

(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented

Choose (D)
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Re: Pepper growers

by srisl11 » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:54 pm
slash wrote:Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale.
Out of scope

(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.
Nothing is mentioned regarding consumption .

(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns.

Production is less because of bad weather and pepper growers switching to Cocoa...So return of normal weather itself will not ensure good pepper production..so not C

(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years.

It is mentioned that pepper has relatively short supplies ..it means that surplus stocks of pepper is not available to compensate the short supplies

(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented.

I'm not sure regarding my assumption but I think we cannot infer that growers made profits for 3 years ...Prices may have soared just a year ago...
IMO D

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by slash » Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:45 am
Thanks guys explantion was useful....

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by kris77 » Thu May 12, 2016 1:22 pm
I am leaning more towards B, but I'm not sure about it.