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UCAT Prep - Decision Making Q90.1-90.5

UCAT/ UKCAT Decision Making

September 10, 2022

UCAT/ UKCAT Question Analysis - Q90.1 - 90.5

Liang owns a shop. Her product catelogue shows over 100 options for tea that customers can buy. Her tea comes from at least six different countries.

  • Teas can be either 'single origin' which means they originate from the same estate, or can be 'blend' which means that leaves from different estates have been mixed.
  • The tea subtypes she sells are: black, green and oolong.
  • No blend can contain more than one subtype.
  • Tea produced from Kenya is always black.
  • All green teas are single origin.
  • Most of her Taiwanese teas are oolong.
  • The majority of her teas are from China.
  • Her most expensive teas are oolong.
  • All her Japanese tea is green.
  • She has more teas from India than Taiwan.
  • Both blends and singles can be scented with perfumes.

Answer YES if the conclusions follow and NO if it doesn't.

Q90.1. Most teas from China are blend.

Q90.2 Most teas from Taiwan are expensive.

Q90.3 Most expensive teas contain a green/ oolong blend.

Q90.4 Chinese teas are cheaper than Taiwanese.

Q90.5 A blend may contain teas from several countries.

Answer and Explanation:

Q90.1 No. There is nothing in the text that supports this.

Q90.2 No. Most expensive teas are oolongs most or all oolongs are expensive. So, most Taiwanese are oolongs most Taiwanese teas are expensive.

Q90.3 No. A blend with more than one subtype cannot be made.

Q90.4 No. The text doesn’t support this statement.

Q90.5 Yes. the operative word is 'may'. The only restriction: a blend canot contain more than one subtype. As you can get some subtypes in more than one country (we know there are at least six countries and only three different subtypes), it is possible to buils a blend from more than one country. Had the word 'may' been omitted, the answer would have been 'no'.