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1000 CR fewer children available for adoption

by poonam1279 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:06 am
There are far fewer children available for adoption than there are people who want to adopt. Two million couples are currently waiting to adopt, but in 1982, the last year for which figures exist, there were only some 50,000 adoptions.
Which of the following statements, if true, most strengthens the author’s claim that there are far fewer children available for adoption than there are people who want to adopt?
(A) The number of couples waiting to adopt has increased significantly in the last decade.
(B) The number of adoptions in the current year is greater than the number of adoptions in any preceding year.
(C) The number of adoptions in a year is approximately equal to the number of children available for adoption in that period.
(D) People who seek to adopt children often go through a long process of interviews and investigation by adoption agencies.
(E) People who seek to adopt children generally make very good parents.

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by awesomeusername » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:36 am
(C) is the best answer because it is stating that virtually all kids available for adoption are adopted each year. So either there is an equal amount of couples seeking to adopt a child as there are children to adopt, OR (more likely) there are more couples seeking children to adopt than there are children available.

(D) and (E) are out for obvious reasons

(A) is out because it is possible that the number of children available for adoption has increased too. Thus there's a chance that there are enough children available for all couples to adopt.

(B) this statement appears to WEAKEN the argument.
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by artabhi » Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:17 pm
I am still unclear about the answer.. can someone pls explain...
I went with option 'A' because it days: The number of couples waiting to adopt has increased significantly in the last decade.

I think this means that there are more couple waiting as the number of children are fewer children available..

Why would the couples waiting increase if the number of children have increased...
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by 4GMAT_Mumbai » Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:29 pm
IMO, the line of thought should be as follows:

The question asks for that answer choice to indicate that there are far fewer children available for adoption. The passage says is 50,000 is the number of adoptions which took place. It does not, at the moment, suggest that number of adoptions is equivalent to the number of children available for adoption. 'C' is the answer choice which plugs the missing link.

Look at this the other way around, had 'C' not been true; it could be that there were only 50,000 adopters in 1982 and lot more children waiting to be adopted. 'C' brings in the perspective that the limiting factor is the number of children and not the number of willing adopters.

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by akahuja143 » Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:53 pm
IMO C.. Hope can get questions right like this on the G-day lol
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:44 pm
i will aslo go with "c" as it tells that as the process of adoption is too time consuming that number of couples increases with repect to no of childrens adopted. suppose last the no of couples who want to adopt child is 100 , if only 50 couples got adoptions then next year it will lag 50 no of couples.
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by akhpad » Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:16 am
I found that people are posting questions from 1000 CR and 1000 SC.

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If it is online, what is the URL.
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by ironstar37 » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:58 am
IMO (C). If the number of adoptions = number of children, then there is no supply of children left for adoption after each year.

(A) does not prove that there are fewer children. May be the number of couples waiting is increasing for other reasons.

(B) Irrelevant

(D) and (E) are out of scope.
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by pops » Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:33 am
how does C proves that far fewer children available for adoption than there are people who want to adopt?
I guess closest to this statement is A :(
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