PrepTest 139, Section 3, Question 5
The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and(426 more words not shown)
The passage provides the most(9 more words not shown)
- AA corporate farm(12 more words not shown)
- BIf small farms(25 more words not shown)
- CConsumers who live(18 more words not shown)
- DIf a CMC(20 more words not shown)
- EDistribution costs are(18 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Two recommendations can pull apart in a particular situation. Grow at least ten crops, but grow only crops your members request. What happens if members request fewer than ten?
What we’re looking for
The farmer can't meet both requirements then. That is a conditional conflict, not a claim that the plan is always self-contradictory. If members request ten or more crops, this particular problem disappears.
Working the answers
- A
The opening associates debt with the pressures on small farms. It doesn't establish that corporate farms are more likely than small farms to need loans.
- B
Charging supermarket prices might bring in more per sale, but we don't know what it would do to customer demand. Raising the price could lose members. The plan doesn't establish higher long-term profits at that price.
- C
The emphasis on urban members and a nearby population center doesn't compare urban and rural consumers' willingness to join. Having a sufficiently large market nearby is different from showing that one kind of person is more interested.
- DCorrect
If customers request fewer than ten crops, the farmer must either grow fewer than ten or grow something no member requested. Either choice leaves at least one recommendation unmet. This follows directly from putting the two requirements together.
- E
Direct sales are supposed to eliminate distribution costs. That isn't a recommendation to budget those costs and then have customers pay them.
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