vikasp99 wrote:
G: The group of works exhibited in this year’s Metropolitan Art Show reveals a bias in favor of photographers. Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show, yet more photographs were exhibited than either sculptures or paintings. As you know, each artist was allowed to submit work in one medium only.
H: How could there have been bias? All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only those works—were exhibited in the show.
If both G’s assertions and H’s assertion are true, which one of the following must also be true?
(A) More photographers than sculptors or painters submitted works to be considered for exhibition in the Metropolitan Art Show.
(B) All the works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show met the traditional criteria for the show.
(C) The quality of photographs exhibited in the metropolitan Art Show was inferior to the quality of the sculptures or paintings exhibited.
(D) Some of the photographs submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show.
(E) More works that met the traditional criteria for the Metropolitan Art Show were submitted by photographers than by sculptors or painters
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
(A) No. G states “
Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show.” However, this allows the photographers to submit more items each than the sculptors and painters.
(B) No. H’s statements imply that some works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show: “
All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only those works—were exhibited in the show.”
(C) No. We know only that the quality of objects displayed—photographs, sculptures, and paintings—met or surpassed the traditional criteria. We are given
no information about the relative quality of the different types of works.
(D) No. H’s statements imply that some works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show: “
All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only those works—were exhibited in the show.” However, we do not have enough information to determine whether any of these works were photographs.
(E) Yes. G states only that equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works. This allows the photographers to submit more items each than the sculptors. For example, each photographer may have submitted 10 photographs, whereas each sculptor may have submitted only 1 sculpture.