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An instructor presented two paintings to a class. She said that the first had hung in prestigious museums but the second was produced by an unknown amateur. Each student was asked which painting was better. Everyone selected the first. The instructor later presented the same two paintings in the same order to a different class. This time she said that the first was produced by an unknown amateur but the second had hung in prestigious museums. In this class, everyone said that the second painting was better.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

(A) Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur.
(B) None of the claims that the instructor made about the paintings was true.
(C) Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
(D) In judging the paintings, some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.
(E) Had the instructor presented the paintings without telling the students anything about them, almost all of the students would have judged them to be roughly equal in artistic worth.
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Somehow it seems to me that D is so out of scope....but discussions are senseless with OE :(
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An instructor presented two paintings to a class. She said that the first had hung in prestigious museums but the second was produced by an unknown amateur. Each student was asked which painting was better. Everyone selected the first. The instructor later presented the same two paintings in the same order to a different class. This time she said that the first was produced by an unknown amateur but the second had hung in prestigious museums. In this class, everyone said that the second painting was better.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

(A) Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur.
(B) None of the claims that the instructor made about the paintings was true.
(C) Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
(D) In judging the paintings, some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.
(E) Had the instructor presented the paintings without telling the students anything about them, almost all of the students would have judged them to be roughly equal in artistic worth.
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An easy one. It's clear that students' judgings two paitings were affected by the history of the paintings that was told before. Hence the answer is D
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An instructor presented two paintings to a class. She said that the first had hung in prestigious museums but the second was produced by an unknown amateur. Each student was asked which painting was better. Everyone selected the first. The instructor later presented the same two paintings in the same order to a different class. This time she said that the first was produced by an unknown amateur but the second had hung in prestigious museums. In this class, everyone said that the second painting was better.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

(A) Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur.
(B) None of the claims that the instructor made about the paintings was true.
(C) Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
(D) In judging the paintings, some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.
(E) Had the instructor presented the paintings without telling the students anything about them, almost all of the students would have judged them to be roughly equal in artistic worth.
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vikasp99 Please avoid posting the same question twice

https://gmatclub.com/forum/an-instructor-presented-two-paintings-to-a-class-she-said-that-the-f-234762.html
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The paintings were presented to two mutually exclusive class of students. Therefore, it is not necessary for any of the students to have been affected by what was told regarding the history of the paintings and they could have chosen what really appealed to them? Doesn't this rule out option D? I chose option A, which does seem to be somewhat supported by the argument.
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Hi, quick question.

On what basis do we eliminate (A) and (C) ?
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Hi, quick question.

On what basis do we eliminate (A) and (C) ?
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(A) Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur.
The passage just tells us that students judged the paintings, not express their feeling. So "like" is irrelevant here.


(C) Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
The same as C
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The paintings were presented to two mutually exclusive class of students. Therefore, it is not necessary for any of the students to have been affected by what was told regarding the history of the paintings and they could have chosen what really appealed to them? Doesn't this rule out option D? I chose option A, which does seem to be somewhat supported by the argument.
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This is an inference type question , and the facts given in the passage cannot conclusively determine that D must be true. However option D could be a likely explanation for such result - thus it would be better if the question were framed as an explain discrepancy type question.

As for option A, it is way too long a leap, because "any work of art" has not been discussed in the passage.
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(A) Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur.
(B) None of the claims that the instructor made about the paintings was true.
(C) Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
(D) In judging the paintings, some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.
(E) Had the instructor presented the paintings without telling the students anything about them, almost all of the students would have judged them to be roughly equal in artistic worth.

Can someone explain why D? it says some of the students but the question refers to all/each of the students in the class
I went with C - i agree that students would like most of the paintings would sound a little far fetched

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(A) Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur.
(B) None of the claims that the instructor made about the paintings was true.
(C) Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
(D) In judging the paintings, some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.
(E) Had the instructor presented the paintings without telling the students anything about them, almost all of the students would have judged them to be roughly equal in artistic worth.

Can someone explain why D? it says some of the students but the question refers to all/each of the students in the class
I went with C - i agree that students would like most of the paintings would sound a little far fetched

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It is not necessarily true that all the students were biased in order to get such a skewed result. Even if some of the students were biased, the skewed result can be explained (For other students, the selection could be natural, not influenced by the instructor). Hence Option D could be a possible explanation.
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An instructor presented two paintings to a class. She said that the first had hung in prestigious museums but the second was produced by an unknown amateur. Each student was asked which painting was better. Everyone selected the first. The instructor later presented the same two paintings in the same order to a different class. This time she said that the first was produced by an unknown amateur but the second had hung in prestigious museums. In this class, everyone said that the second painting was better.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

(A) Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur.
(B) None of the claims that the instructor made about the paintings was true.
(C) Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
(D) In judging the paintings, some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.
(E) Had the instructor presented the paintings without telling the students anything about them, almost all of the students would have judged them to be roughly equal in artistic worth.

D is the correct answer since the students wanted to know the history of the paining as a fator to detemind the quality of work apart from just the painting skills of the painter.
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How D can be the answer ?.......some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.

Where as the Q-stem clearly indicates ( by providing cases of 2 classes) that all of the students were effected.
For me C is the best choice.
Although I would have liked an option saying : Each of the students would like the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
or .....Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur compared to the well established art works.
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History of painting is not discussed here. So why D?
Option C is better in all and more appealing.
Though this is inference family question, we can't go beyond stimulus.
Please explain.
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How D can be the answer ?.......some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.

Where as the Q-stem clearly indicates ( by providing cases of 2 classes) that all of the students were effected.
For me C is the best choice.
Although I would have liked an option saying : Each of the students would like the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
or .....Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur compared to the well established art works.
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History of painting is not discussed here. So why D?
Option C is better in all and more appealing.
Though this is inference family question, we can't go beyond stimulus.
Please explain.
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bb or egmat or GMATNinja or souvik101990 or sayantanc2k or any verbal exparts could any of you please point us to our mistake ?
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How D can be the answer ?.......some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the history of the paintings.

Where as the Q-stem clearly indicates ( by providing cases of 2 classes) that all of the students were effected.
For me C is the best choice.
Although I would have liked an option saying : Each of the students would like the paintings hanging in any prestigious museum.
or .....Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced by an unknown amateur compared to the well established art works.

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History of painting is not discussed here. So why D?
Option C is better in all and more appealing.
Though this is inference family question, we can't go beyond stimulus.
Please explain.

bb or egmat or GMATNinja or souvik101990 or sayantanc2k or any verbal exparts could any of you please point us to our mistake ?
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Hi u1983, I will try to explain.
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We know that the students prefer a painting that hung in a prestigious museum over one by an amateur. This doesn't tell us that the students like the prestigious painting. It could also be the case that they don't really like any of the two but the prestigious one is slightly more appealing to them. As we lack any info about the "absolute appeal" we can't infer that the students would like most of the painting in any prestigious museum.

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The two groups of students received two different explanations of the source of the paintings. One time, the source was a prestigious museum and the second time an amateur. Because both groups preferred the prestigious one we can definitely conclude that the source influenced their decision. They got shown the exact same two pictures but judged differently based on the source of the painting. Hence, we can conclude that history, which is the source of the painting in this case, affected the students' judgement.

Hope that helps :-)
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