Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
May 2110:00 AM EDT
-11:59 PM EDT
Make the most of your break with the most realistic GMAT™ prep. Take up to $700 off select products.
May 2808:30 AM PDT
-09:30 AM PDT
Are you constantly rereading GMAT RC passages but still struggling to understand them? Most students think rereading improves accuracy — but in reality, it usually signals a flawed reading strategy.- Jun 10
06:00 AM PDT
-06:15 PM PDT
Register for the GMAT Club Virtual MBA Spotlight Fair – the world’s premier event for serious MBA candidates. This is your chance to hear directly from Admissions Directors at nearly every Top 30 MBA program..
23 Sep 2024, 14:12
Kudos
Bookmarks
Blank 1: causing further inconvenience to the passengers
Blank 2: encountering a serious emergency
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
65%
(hard)
Question Stats:
53% (02:04) correct
47%
(02:32)
wrong
based on 1568
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
An Airline carrying 86 passengers has resumed flying toward its destination after maintaining an unscheduled holding pattern for hours. Even given the strong headwind, the remaining fuel would be enough to safely reach the scheduled destination, 240 kilometres away, but the pilots have just been notified of a further substantial delay at the destination. They are reversing course and will proceed directly to another airport, also about 240 kilometres away, for refuelling. By the time the refuelling is complete, conditions will likely again delay continuing to the original destination airport.
The pilot’s decision is likely based on a judgment that in these conditions, accepting a near-certain risk of Blank 1 is preferable to incurring the non negligible risk of Blank 2.
Select for Blank 1 and for Blank 2 the options that, when inserted in the respective blanks, create the most accurate statement. Make only two selections, one in each column.
The pilot’s decision is likely based on a judgment that in these conditions, accepting a near-certain risk of Blank 1 is preferable to incurring the non negligible risk of Blank 2.
Select for Blank 1 and for Blank 2 the options that, when inserted in the respective blanks, create the most accurate statement. Make only two selections, one in each column.
| Blank 1 | Blank 2 | |
| having to fly perpendicular to a strong wind current | ||
| encountering a serious emergency | ||
| having to refuel at the originally scheduled destination | ||
| ensuring that the passengers understand the reasoning behind the pilots' decision | ||
| causing further inconvenience to the passengers |
ShowHide Answer
Official Answer
Blank 1: causing further inconvenience to the passengers
Blank 2: encountering a serious emergency
Question exposed a gap?
Take sectional Adaptive Quant, Verbal, or DI tests on GMAT Club and review the detailed score report.
Get started →
26 Sep 2024, 10:02
Kudos
Bookmarks
1. The question asks us to fill in the blanks: "accepting a near-certain risk of Blank 1 is preferable to incurring the non negligible risk of Blank 2".
2. After reading the text, we can understand that the pilot had a decision to either reach the scheduled destination, during a strong headwind, or to fly to another airport for refueling. The pilot chose the latter.
3. Now, we can look at what might be in the blanks:
- "having to fly perpendicular to a strong wind current". This is unrelated, since there is no mention of flying perpendicular. So, this statement doesn't fit in any of the blanks.
- "encountering a serious emergency". Here, a serious emergency can be inferred to be the possibility of flying to the scheduled destination, during a strong headwind. Blank 2 is less preferable than Blank 1 and encountering a serious emergency is most likely the least preferable. So, this statement fits Blank 2.
- "having to refuel at the originally scheduled destination". This statement was one of the decisions that the pilot had to pick from. However, there is no risk of having to refuel. So, this statement doesn't fit in any of the blanks.
- "ensuring that the passengers understand the reasoning behind the pilots' decision". This statement also doesn't have a risk or at least it isn't mentioned. So, this statement doesn't fit in any of the blanks.
- "causing further inconvenience to the passengers". Here, it can be inferred that it's related to the decision of flying back to refuel. There is also a risk to accept, which is preferable to encountering a serious emergency. So, this statement fits Blank 1.
4. That means our answer will be: Blank 1 - "causing further inconvenience to the passengers"; Blank 2 - "encountering a serious emergency".
2. After reading the text, we can understand that the pilot had a decision to either reach the scheduled destination, during a strong headwind, or to fly to another airport for refueling. The pilot chose the latter.
3. Now, we can look at what might be in the blanks:
- "having to fly perpendicular to a strong wind current". This is unrelated, since there is no mention of flying perpendicular. So, this statement doesn't fit in any of the blanks.
- "encountering a serious emergency". Here, a serious emergency can be inferred to be the possibility of flying to the scheduled destination, during a strong headwind. Blank 2 is less preferable than Blank 1 and encountering a serious emergency is most likely the least preferable. So, this statement fits Blank 2.
- "having to refuel at the originally scheduled destination". This statement was one of the decisions that the pilot had to pick from. However, there is no risk of having to refuel. So, this statement doesn't fit in any of the blanks.
- "ensuring that the passengers understand the reasoning behind the pilots' decision". This statement also doesn't have a risk or at least it isn't mentioned. So, this statement doesn't fit in any of the blanks.
- "causing further inconvenience to the passengers". Here, it can be inferred that it's related to the decision of flying back to refuel. There is also a risk to accept, which is preferable to encountering a serious emergency. So, this statement fits Blank 1.
4. That means our answer will be: Blank 1 - "causing further inconvenience to the passengers"; Blank 2 - "encountering a serious emergency".
General Discussion
17 May 2026, 09:42
Kudos
Bookmarks
I got this question wrong, I don't understand why blank 2 is encountering a serious emergency and not having to refuel at the originally scheduled destination because it says that Even given the strong headwind, the remaining fuel would be enough to safely reach the scheduled destination, so why would they pivot to another airport? The only reason I can think of is to having to refuel at that destination because of the delay? What even does "further substantial delay at the destination" mean, like the airplane is circling over the air unable to land, or the airplane is in the taxi and can't deboard the passengers because the airport itself is busy, no available gates etc.
