custodio wrote:
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GMATGuruNYQuote:
According to E, most FLIGHTS landing at Greentown contain passengers who must make a connection AT GREENTOWN.
Choice (E) says "Several airlines use Greentown as a regional hub, so that most flights landing at Greentown have many passengers who then take different flights to reach their final destinations."
Do we have to assume that connection flights should take place in Greentown? (E) does not say anything about it. In fact, we can also assume that connection flights can take place in Hevelia, reducing the congestion in Greentown.
(Note: we would not care about how inconvenient it would be to go from Greentown to Hevelia because the argument is all about reducing the traffic, not the convenience)
Consider the following case:
Every day at Greentown, flights A, B, C and D arrive with 100 passengers each.
According to E, most of these passengers must make a connecting flight.
Let's say 90 passengers on each plane must connect to flight X or Y -- a total of
360 passengers.
According to the passage, Hevelia is to handle 20% of the passengers at Greentown.
20% of 400 daily passengers at Greentown = 80.
Best case scenario:
80 of the 360 connecting passengers in blue use Hevelia instead of Greentown.
Result:
Flights A, B, C and D each still have passengers who must connect to flight X or Y at Greentown.
Implication:
Traffic at Greentown is not reduced, since all 6 planes -- A, B, C, D, X and Y -- must all still use Greentown.
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