{"id":1418,"date":"2009-11-27T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2009-11-28T03:08:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T11:08:04","slug":"math-gmat-club-test-m10-q04-verbal-cr-environmentalist-vs-business-spokesperson-in-milville-by-duttsit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/math-gmat-club-test-m10-q04-verbal-cr-environmentalist-vs-business-spokesperson-in-milville-by-duttsit\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: GMAT Club Test m10, q04; Verbal (CR): &#8220;Environmentalist vs business spokesperson in Milville&#8221; by duttsit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A steamer going upstream would cover the distance between town A and town B in 4 hours and 30 minutes. If the same steamer going downstream would cover the distance between the towns in 3 hours, how long would it take a raft moving at the speed of the current to float from town B to town A?<\/p>\n<p>(C) 2008 GMAT Club - m10#4<\/p>\n<p>    (A) 10 hours<br \/>\n    (B) 12 hours<br \/>\n    (C) 15 hours<br \/>\n    (D) 18 hours<br \/>\n    (E) 20 hours<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m10-72476.html\">OA and discussion<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Verbal (CR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist:<\/p>\n<p>The use of snowmobiles in the vast park north of Milville creates unacceptable levels of air pollution and should be banned.<\/p>\n<p>Milville business spokesperson:<\/p>\n<p>Snowmobiling brings many out-of-towners to Milville in winter months, to the great financial benefit of many local residents. So, economics dictate that we put up with the pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist:I disagree: A great many cross-country skiers are now kept from visiting Milville by the noise and pollution that snowmobiles generate.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist responds to the business spokesperson by doing which of the following?<\/p>\n<p>(A) Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome can derive from only one set of circumstances<\/p>\n<p>(B) Challenging an assumption that certain desirable outcome is outweighed by negative aspects associated with producing that outcome<\/p>\n<p>(C) Maintaining that the benefit that the spokesperson desires could be achieved in greater degree by a different means<\/p>\n<p>(D) Claiming that the spokesperson is deliberately misrepresenting the environmentalist<\/p>\n<p>(E) Denying that an effect that the spokesperson presents as having benefited a certain group of people actually benefited those people<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/cr-tough-one-milville-24740.html\">OA and discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math A steamer going upstream would cover the distance between town A and town B in 4 hours and 30 minutes. If the same steamer going downstream would cover the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}