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Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit growers since the early
1960's, a regulation in force since 1960 has prohibited sale of fruit on which any TDX
residue can be detected. That regulation is about to be replaced by one that allows sale of
fruit on which trace amounts of TDX residue are detected. In fact, however, the change
will not allow more TDX on fruit than was allowed in the 1960's, because ______.
A. pre-1970 techniques for detecting TDX residue could detect it only when it was
present on fruit in more than the trace amounts allowed by the new regulations
B. many more people today than in the 1960's habitually purchase and eat fruit
without making an effort to clean residues off the fruit
C. people today do not individually consume any more pieces of fruit, on average,
than did the people in the 1960's
D. at least a small fraction of the fruit sold each year since the early 1960's has had
on it greater levels of TDX than the regulation allows
E. the presence of TDX on fruit in greater than trace amounts has not been shown to
cause any harm even to children who eat large amounts of fruit
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by manpsingh87 » Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:28 am
alltimeacheiver wrote:Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit growers since the early
1960's, a regulation in force since 1960 has prohibited sale of fruit on which any TDX
residue can be detected. That regulation is about to be replaced by one that allows sale of
fruit on which trace amounts of TDX residue are detected. In fact, however, the change
will not allow more TDX on fruit than was allowed in the 1960's, because ______.
A. pre-1970 techniques for detecting TDX residue could detect it only when it was
present on fruit in more than the trace amounts allowed by the new regulations
B. many more people today than in the 1960's habitually purchase and eat fruit
without making an effort to clean residues off the fruit
C. people today do not individually consume any more pieces of fruit, on average,
than did the people in the 1960's
D. at least a small fraction of the fruit sold each year since the early 1960's has had
on it greater levels of TDX than the regulation allows
E. the presence of TDX on fruit in greater than trace amounts has not been shown to
cause any harm even to children who eat large amounts of fruit
IMO A...!!!

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by alltimeacheiver » Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:13 am
pls provide details on how to attemp this questions

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by manpsingh87 » Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:22 am
alltimeacheiver wrote:pls provide details on how to attemp this questions
we have to look at the option which took the idea mention in the last line forward or completes it, suppose before 1960 the trace level was 30% for the detection of tdx, and now after new regulation trace level of tdx is reduced to say 5% therefore now tdx is still present on the fruits but we will not be able to it detect it if we follow the method that was employed before 1960..!!!

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by mundasingh123 » Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:16 am
is this a gmatprep question or official guide for Gmat verbal Review quest
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