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­Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their countries. In Country A, about 2,500 violent crimes are reported per year. In Country B, about 1,000 violent crimes are reported per year. Trying to draw tourists away from Country A, officials in Country B use these violent crime statistics to claim it has a lower violent crime rate than Country A.

Which of the following, if true, would expose the flaw in Country B's argument that it has the lower violent crime rate?


A. Most violent criminals in Country B are repeat offenders.

B. White-collar crime is higher in Country B than in Country A.

C. The population of Country A is 20 times greater than the population of Country B.

D. Country B has fewer tourists than Country A.

E. Country A has a better prison system than Country B.


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Re: Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their [#permalink] Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their   23 Apr 2024, 02:07
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Option C

Straight fwd: Country B says- we have 1000 vs County A at 2500 Violet crimes/year.
Predictable flaw- the percentage of the actual population
and that is stated in option C

Rest all don't talk about the Violent crime rate etc
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Re: Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their [#permalink] Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their   23 Apr 2024, 02:15
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C should be the answer. Even B 's population is lesser then A's population , still B s crime rate i.e 1000 is quite close to A's crime rate .
B is not safe either.
C is the answer.

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Re: Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their [#permalink] Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their   02 Jun 2024, 01:15
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­Countries A and B are in competition to draw tourists to their countries. In Country A, about 2,500 violent crimes are reported per year. In Country B, about 1,000 violent crimes are reported per year. Trying to draw tourists away from Country A, officials in Country B use these violent crime statistics to claim it has a lower violent crime rate than Country A.

Which of the following, if true, would expose the flaw in Country B's argument that it has the lower violent crime rate?


A. Most violent criminals in Country B are repeat offenders.

B. White-collar crime is higher in Country B than in Country A.

C. The population of Country A is 20 times greater than the population of Country B.

D. Country B has fewer tourists than Country A.

E. Country A has a better prison system than Country B.


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C

The flaw in Country B's argument is that it does not properly distinguish between totals and rates or percentages. Country B has fewer violent crimes, but that doesn't mean that it has a lower crime rate, or fewer violent crimes per person. In fact, (C) indicates that Country A's population is so much greater than that of Country B that the percentage of people who are victims of violent crime in Country A is actually lower than it is in Country B. So (C) is correct because it fixes the total/percentage flaw and indicates that Country A has the lower violent crime rate.

(A), (B), and (E) aren't relevant to the relative rates of violent crime in the two countries. (D) is irrelevant because the crime rates in the two countries are not determined by how many tourists they have but- by their total populations. •­
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