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#23966
Complete Question Explanation
Must Be True. The correct answer choice is (D)
In the stimulus for these two questions, the author tells us about a study of three cities, conducted by four market research companies. For the two stable population cities, current and future population estimates were about the same from all market research companies. There was much greater variation, the author tells us, with respect to the third city, which had a less stable population.
Answer choice (A): This is not the proper comparison; the passage says nothing about the relative difficulty associated with estimating the populations of different sized cities, but rather of cities with different levels of stability.
Answer choice (B): Marketing usefulness is irrelevant to the stimulus, which deals with the ability of market research companies to accurately estimate the populations of cities of various stabilities.
Answer choice (C): The stimulus tells us nothing about whether or not the rate of population change fluctuates in rapidly growing cities
Answer choice (D) is the correct answer choice. If all of the companies had equivalent estimates for the stable cities, it seems they would be equally reliable for such estimations.
Answers choice (E): This answer choice cannot be properly inferred from the passage (and seems rather unlikely).
Must Be True. The correct answer choice is (D)
In the stimulus for these two questions, the author tells us about a study of three cities, conducted by four market research companies. For the two stable population cities, current and future population estimates were about the same from all market research companies. There was much greater variation, the author tells us, with respect to the third city, which had a less stable population.
Answer choice (A): This is not the proper comparison; the passage says nothing about the relative difficulty associated with estimating the populations of different sized cities, but rather of cities with different levels of stability.
Answer choice (B): Marketing usefulness is irrelevant to the stimulus, which deals with the ability of market research companies to accurately estimate the populations of cities of various stabilities.
Answer choice (C): The stimulus tells us nothing about whether or not the rate of population change fluctuates in rapidly growing cities
Answer choice (D) is the correct answer choice. If all of the companies had equivalent estimates for the stable cities, it seems they would be equally reliable for such estimations.
Answers choice (E): This answer choice cannot be properly inferred from the passage (and seems rather unlikely).