GRE Preparation Wrath And Why This Fictious Zoo Would Have Bees in the Trapz. By Senator Wayne.

What kind of zoo would keep records of the percentage of each animal type but not the total population of the animals and animal types?! And then they have the gall to ask me how many leopards they now have after importing 8 more tigers into the zoo!

I'd count these babies all day, everyday.

This is not how zoo records are kept! It's like someone just lost all the preliminary data, but kept a pie chart. Can you really trust the pie chart without it's source? Plus without dates associated with these mysteriously obtained percentages, how can you possible know that the populations were sustained at the import date of the 8 new tigers?

4 months of baby hiding and this whole scenario is whack.

 A lion gestation period is only 110 days. That's 4 months. You're telling me you've kept an eye on the pregnancies of all the feline animals in the zoo for 4 months, but didn't take the time to count them along with relating them to the total percentage among the feline population? Not likely. It probably takes about a 3-4 years to even gain ownership of 8 tigers, so this definitely wasn't a spur of the moment thing.

The likely owners of this crazed zoo.

8 tigers would be a huge increase in the total food and care needed by the feline department of any zoo. That would need precise measurements of development and sustaining care required for each population. If a zoo were keep logs of population sizes by mere percentage points without differentiating between mature, adolescent, and cub felines along with various factors concerning the diets of each specific cat, then their animals would inevitably suffer. Either this zoo is terrible, or these questions are wildly farfetched.

Wise bear, tell me the number of your people.

I'm probably over thinking these practice questions.