Instructions

Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows.
Passage IV
Smokejumpers are often asked to address to organizations and the public groups about the importance of fire
protection, particularly fire deterrence and detection. Because smoke detectors reduce the risk of dying in a fire by half, smokejumpers often provide audiences with information on how to fix these protective devices in their homes. Specifically, they tell them these things: A smoke detector should be placed on each floor of a home. While sleeping, people are in particular risk of a surfacing fire, and there must be a detector outside each sleeping area. A good site for a detector would be a hallway that runs between living spaces and bedrooms. Because of the dead-air space that might be missed by turbulent hot air bouncing around above a fire, smoke detectors should be installed either on the ceiling at least four inches from the adjoining wall, or high on a wall at least four, but no further than twelve, inches from the ceiling. Detectors should not be mounted near windows, exterior doors, or other places where drafts might direct the smoke away from the unit. Nor should they be placed in kitchens and garages, where cooking and gas fumes are likely to cause bogus alarms.

Question 64

The passage states that, compared with people who do not have smoke detectors, persons who live in homes with smoke detectors have a:-

Solution

It can be inferred from these lines of passage, "Because smoke detectors reduce the risk of dying in a fire by half,
smokejumpers often provide audiences with information on how to fix these protective devices in their home
s", that smoke detectors increase the survival in case of fire by 50%.

Since option A aptly reflects this inference, it is the correct answer.

Option B is a distorted inference as smoke detectors increase the chances of survival, not decrease.

Options C and D are nowhere explicitly mentioned or implied in the passage.

Thus, the correct answer is A.


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