- Thu Sep 15, 2022 1:07 am
#97209
I guess it's not a hard question once you get what it says, but I still want to vent my thoughts, because I feel one has to take a lot of assumptions to reach the correct answer.
My main complaint is that the stimulus shifts the meaning of "effective". The first use, "in order to be effective", means "to be put into effect"; it's an absolute on/off. While the second, "extremely effective" means "to work very well"; it's a relative extent.
I first thought "effective" was relative, that just because derections had to be repeated to work WELL, didn't mean they had to be repeated to work AT ALL. And I also didn't realize that "issue an initial command" meant "say it only once"; I thought it meant to put the first command into effect. So even if it was not effective, it still worked, not to the effect of being repeated 1,000 times, but maybe 100 times. That's why I chose (D), because we were not sure if the initial command was repeated many times so that it was working well (1,000 times) or it was just working (less times).