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Explain a paradox

Explain a paradox

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Explain a paradox

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- [Voiceover] The final kind of GRE logic question I'll talk about is the paradox question. The wording in the question may vary but you'll know it's a paradox question since the situation presented in the passage will be self-contradictory. In this video, I'll explain how to work with this type of question. So here we have a passage, so go ahead and read it. And I'll paraphrase it. It seems that there's these mites that feed on apples, and we sprayed them with pesticides but somehow they increased in population. So I'll just write down that, and when we write down the paraphrase here, we want to include the two facts that don't make sense together. So, pesticide works, I'm going to say, but mites increased. So that's a paradox, right? Those two facts don't make any sense. Why did the mites increase if the pesticide works? So let's look at the choices, so we say, which of the following most logically completes the passage? That's another way of saying that this is a paradox question…

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