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Patrick usually provides child care for six children. Parents leave their children at Patrick's house in the morning and pick them up after work. At the end of each workweek, the parents pay Patrick at an hourly rate for the child care provided that week. The weekly income Patrick receives is usually adequate but not always uniform, particularly in the winter, when children are likely to get sick and be unpredictably absent. Which of the following plans, if put into effect, has the best prospect of making Patrick’s weekly income both uniform and adequate ? (Al Pool resources with a neighbor who provides child care under similar arrangements, so that the two of them cooperate in caring for twice as many children as Patrick currently does. (B) Replace payment by actual hours of child care provided with a fixed weekly fee based upon the number of hours of child care that Patrick would typically be expected to provide. (C) Hire a full-time helper and invest in facilities for providing child care to sick children. (Dl Increase the hourly rate to a level that would provide adequate income even in a week when half of the children Patrick usually cares for are absent. (El Increase the number of hours made available for child care each day, so that parents can leave their children in Patrick's care for a longer period each day at the current hourly rate.
In parts of South America, vitamin-A deficiency is a serious health problem, especially among children. In one region, agriculturists are attempting to improve nutrition by encouraging farmers to plant a new variety of sweet potato called SPK004 that is rich in beta-carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A. The plan has good chances of success, since sweet potato is a staple of the region's diet and agriculture, and the varieties currently grown contain little beta-carotene. Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the plan will succeed? (A) The growing conditions required by the varieties of sweet potato currently cultivated in the region are conditions in which SPK004 can flourish. (8) The flesh of SPK004 differs from that of the currently cultivated sweet potatoes in color and texture, so traditional foods would look somewhat different when prepared from SPK004. (C) There are no other varieties of sweet potato that are significantly richer in beta-carotene than SPK004 is. (D) The varieties of sweet potato currently cultivated in the region contain some important nutrients that are lacking in SPK004 . (E) There are other vegetables currently grown in the region that contain more beta-carotene than the currently cultivated varieties of sweet potato do. |
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