Ended up eliminating this choice and selected D even though “some” isn’t great. Can anyone explain?
It’s pretty simple if you think about it
They reinforced the part of the plans that had the concentration of bullet holes …in planes that returned home
So it’s unlikely those spots led to loss of planes and lives, in fact probably the opposite. It suggests those are likely the safest parts of the plane to be hit.
The passage specifically mentioned that the number of planes and pilots lost (i.e planes that don’t return home) remains the same.
That leaves room for us to make the inference that since those areas of concentration are found in planes that do make it home, then getting hit where they got hit doesn’t make a difference.
It is very likely a different case for those that don’t make it home.
We do not know the pattern of bullet hole concentration for those that don’t make it home.
Hence we are likely reinforcing the wrong parts of the plane (by inference, likely the stronger parts of the plane)
Another inference here to be made would be that if we instead examine the bullet hole concentration in the planes that don’t make it home, and reinforce those areas, the number of planes and pilots lost would reduce.
Also, you’ll need to identify that “suffering damage” does not equate to “loss”
