QUESTION TEXT: Surprisingly, a new study has revealed that…
QUESTION TYPE: Paradox
PARADOX: When it rains in Crystal Bay, pollution levels peak. But rainwater is virtually pure, so it should make the bay less polluted.
ANALYSIS: Paradox questions are often hard to prephrase, because there are a few options. Here, we need to show why rain (which seemingly should help) causes more pollution.
There are a couple options:
- Rain has some negative effect on the bay that increases pollution
- Dry spells have an effect that decreases pollution, and this effect goes away when it rains.
The correct answer will likely fit one of these two categories.
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- This doesn’t solve the paradox. If rainfall is negligible, then why does pollution increase?
- CORRECT. If the rainwater is bringing pesticides into the bay, that tells us why the heavy rain causes more pollution.
- The stimulus tells us that rainwater is pure, so it shouldn’t matter where the water comes from.
- This provides an explanation for where pollution comes from. But it doesn’t make sense that this would happen after heavy rain. Why would there be beachgoers during a rainstorm?
- This tells us that this pattern is standard, but that doesn’t solve the paradox. We want to know why.
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