I was thinking B because, yea we already know the halophytes tolerate sea water and can grow with it, but if some of them require seawater wouldn't that help neutralize the part in the stimulus that says there's a smaller yield with sea water. So yea there's a smaller yield but some of them need it to grow.
I do understand that we don't know if the halophytes we have do or don't require salt water, but I feel like that still strengthens bc what if we do? is that not a valid assumption?
or is it that since we don't know which ones we have (we just know the they can be watered with seawater) this doesn't strengthen or weaken bc we just don't know.
irrig is ONE OF the largest costs. What if harvesting is another and distributing is another. How do we know which one is largest? Perhaps irrig is the smallest of those large costs.
Ok so I understand how to break down what is a pro and con for each option, the find the cost and benefits, but I don't understand how to evaluate them. how do I know which benefit is the most important? is it just the number of costs/benefits? how do you add weight of those cost benefits to your analysis.
I figured that B if true, would show that since halophytes need salt, and they would give them salt, there will be greater crop yield since they are getting what they need, which ultimately means seawater agriculture would in fact be cost-effective, so it strengthens the argument. What is the issue with this thought process?
Because the argument focuses on cost and why seawater is cheaper/better, find an answer that strengthens that. What makes the reason "seawater is cheaper?" look better? E does. E is saying "wow, pumping water for irrigation water is SO expensive", and that makes cheap seawater agriculture look great.
E says it's simply ONE OF the largest costs, yet you failed to point out this glaring issue with it. Usually with wrong answers you are quick to point out its faults but with the right answer here you are blind to the problems. With the little pie chart you made, you assumed that E means pumping is the majority of the cost, yet E could also mean it's the 3rd largest contributor of cost with a measly 10%.
Both are equally arbitrary assumptions we just made. E might be the best answer, but it is overall a pretty weak answer that wasn't properly dissected here, in my humble opinion.
FWIW, I think it's important to highlight that answer choice (B) refers to "some" halophytes. We don't know if that's relevant to the argument as it may, or may not be, the same subset of halophytes spoken about in the stimulus - so you can probably eliminate it just off that.
It would be helpful to know the difficulty level of these questions too, just like the "You Try" questions. A simple indicator of the difficulty level would be great. #feedback
Even though I know that these specific questions are used for lessons, I would greatly appreciate a chance to do the questions on my own before the explanation of the lesson, much like the 'You Try' sections. I understand that this is so that I fully watch the lesson, but I feel that having a chance to do the question on my own allows me the opportunity to work through my own way of learning how to do the question, and even sometimes discover that I am doing the question the same way that the video/lesson is going to explain how to do, which personally allows me to learn more from the specific question. Let me know what your thoughts are or if anyone else agrees.
if I didn't understand what irrigation means, how can I translate it, since another sentence uses it with a different meaning that could be understood as"switched"?
#feedback it would be helpful if you print the answer choices where you discuss them in the text. Otherwise where are we supposed to see them? We'd have to fast forward and rewind the video because the video doesn't display all the answer choices simultaneously.
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I was thinking B because, yea we already know the halophytes tolerate sea water and can grow with it, but if some of them require seawater wouldn't that help neutralize the part in the stimulus that says there's a smaller yield with sea water. So yea there's a smaller yield but some of them need it to grow.
I do understand that we don't know if the halophytes we have do or don't require salt water, but I feel like that still strengthens bc what if we do? is that not a valid assumption?
or is it that since we don't know which ones we have (we just know the they can be watered with seawater) this doesn't strengthen or weaken bc we just don't know.
I feel like D has the potential to weaken the argument for sure.
irrig is ONE OF the largest costs. What if harvesting is another and distributing is another. How do we know which one is largest? Perhaps irrig is the smallest of those large costs.
Ok so I understand how to break down what is a pro and con for each option, the find the cost and benefits, but I don't understand how to evaluate them. how do I know which benefit is the most important? is it just the number of costs/benefits? how do you add weight of those cost benefits to your analysis.
#help
for E it just says irrigation, it doesn't specify seawater or freshwater irrigation, did I miss something?
I figured that B if true, would show that since halophytes need salt, and they would give them salt, there will be greater crop yield since they are getting what they need, which ultimately means seawater agriculture would in fact be cost-effective, so it strengthens the argument. What is the issue with this thought process?
This hurt my brian
Because the argument focuses on cost and why seawater is cheaper/better, find an answer that strengthens that. What makes the reason "seawater is cheaper?" look better? E does. E is saying "wow, pumping water for irrigation water is SO expensive", and that makes cheap seawater agriculture look great.
Dumbing down the question and not overthinking has helped me get a lot of these questions right. But idk if this is a good or bad
E says it's simply ONE OF the largest costs, yet you failed to point out this glaring issue with it. Usually with wrong answers you are quick to point out its faults but with the right answer here you are blind to the problems. With the little pie chart you made, you assumed that E means pumping is the majority of the cost, yet E could also mean it's the 3rd largest contributor of cost with a measly 10%.
Both are equally arbitrary assumptions we just made. E might be the best answer, but it is overall a pretty weak answer that wasn't properly dissected here, in my humble opinion.
brain explosion incoming
Use this as a "this is the most confusing stimulus I've seen so far" button
Econ major coming in clutch
this question is so confusing to me. especially the conclusion
still kind of confused on this; can someone explain this to me in their own terms?
FWIW, I think it's important to highlight that answer choice (B) refers to "some" halophytes. We don't know if that's relevant to the argument as it may, or may not be, the same subset of halophytes spoken about in the stimulus - so you can probably eliminate it just off that.
It would be helpful to know the difficulty level of these questions too, just like the "You Try" questions. A simple indicator of the difficulty level would be great. #feedback
Even though I know that these specific questions are used for lessons, I would greatly appreciate a chance to do the questions on my own before the explanation of the lesson, much like the 'You Try' sections. I understand that this is so that I fully watch the lesson, but I feel that having a chance to do the question on my own allows me the opportunity to work through my own way of learning how to do the question, and even sometimes discover that I am doing the question the same way that the video/lesson is going to explain how to do, which personally allows me to learn more from the specific question. Let me know what your thoughts are or if anyone else agrees.
if I didn't understand what irrigation means, how can I translate it, since another sentence uses it with a different meaning that could be understood as"switched"?
#help Added by Admin
#feedback it would be helpful if you print the answer choices where you discuss them in the text. Otherwise where are we supposed to see them? We'd have to fast forward and rewind the video because the video doesn't display all the answer choices simultaneously.