Question 7 is based on the following reading passage.

Many of the Ship anchored in Goa boasts a luxurious hot tub on the top deck. Almost 70% of the ships that were sold in the past ten years in Goa are older models, and none of them had built-in hot tubs.

The information above most strongly supports which of the following?

(A) All Ship in Goa without hot tubs were sold in the past ten years.
(B) None of the newer Ship models with hot tubs will be sold in the next ten years.
(C) Only new Ship models come with hot tubs.
(D) Some newer Ship models were sold in the past ten years in Goa.
(E) people shopping for Ships will likely choose an older-model with a hot tub than an older-model without a hot tub.


Answer: (D)

Explanation: The two pieces of evidence we are offered here do not allow us to make a strong enough conclusion to connect ships to hot tubs.
The first sentence tells us that an unspecified “many” of the ships in Goa have a hot tub, but we do not know how many of these ships are older models and how many are newer models.
The second sentence tells us that 70% sold were older models: that would imply that 30% sold were newer models.
Just because none of the older models that sold in the past ten years had built-in hot tubs does not necessarily mean people are avoiding buying older model ships without hot tubs.
There could be any number of explanations for this data. The only thing we can infer is that since only 70% were older models, at least some newer models were sold.

So, option (D) is correct

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