By analyzing the garbage

[mehrak]

By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households, a group of modern urban anthropologists has found that a household discards less food the more standardized—made up of canned and prepackaged foods—its diet is. The more standardized a household’s diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.

(B) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.

© The less standardized a household’s diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household’s food waste.

(D) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste.

(E) The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.

OA:C

confused between C and D :hmm:

[prasdude]

C it is.

More standardized the diet,the more it is made up of canned n prepackaged foods...D states the opp of this

[star_321]

The author never mentions the type of the food that is wasted..so we can't assume what is stated in D....also the cause effect is reversed in D

[crazy800]

By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households, a group of modern urban anthropologists has found that a household discards less food the more standardized—made up of canned and prepackaged foods—its diet is. The more standardized a household’s diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

 

(A) An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.--> irrelevant

 

(B) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.---> more standardized diet is, less food waste. thus less standardized diet, more food waste no nonfood waste. WRONG

 

© The less standardized a household’s diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household’s food waste.--> if we just reverse the last line of the argument "The more standardized a household’s diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away" we will get the answer......

 

(D) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste. ---> this sounds plausible at first chance. but if we go back to the argument we see that no relation is given between standardized diet and canned & prepackaged foods. so DISCARD it

 

(E) The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.--how much a household buy is irrelevant. INCORRECT

 

So, C it is