Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out
1. If all the firms in an industry were required to install specific pollution-prevention equipment, the government would need to set up a system to monitor compliance by each of the arms and to punish each violator.
2.Second-hand car markets for example are characterised by thousands of small firms, so there is much greater uncertainty about the industry standards that apply to them
3.It is far easier to regulate and administer an industry which has fewer firms operating within it, than to regulate one with several small firms.
4.However, this does not constitute an unequivocal case for large firms, because we have to weigh this against the costs of large monopolising industries.
5.This would give rise to challenges in administration, not to mention the costs, and there are limits to the penalty that can be imposed on a small violating firms.
Solution
Forming pairs can help us identify the odd sentence here.
Sentences one and five will form a pair because they talk about a scenario where the government needs to act, and sentence five talks about the challenges to the same scenario. Hence, these pairs are valid and a part of the paragraph.
Furthermore, sentences three and four can be a likely pair because they compare and contrast the impact of implementation on small and large firms. Therefore, they are also a pair.
The remaining sentence two shall be dropped because the others are forming more accurate pairs withing each other.
