In a certain state, hunting permits require the hunter to be at least

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In a certain state, hunting permits require the hunter to be at least 18 years old, possess a valid driver's license or state identification, and have completed a safety program within the past 5 years. The hunter must also sign a legal document pledging not to consume alcohol while hunting.

(A) All states have the same requirements for hunting permits.
In a certain state,

(B) Hunters under the age of 21 don't need to sign the alcohol pledge because they are not legally allowed to drink alcohol under any circumstances.
Eligible hunters must sign the pledge, including those of 18,19, and 20

(C) If a person last completed the safety program six years ago, he will have to complete the program again before he can be eligible for a permit in this state. (Rephrase of the original sentence).
-OK. hunting permits require to have completed a safety program within the past 5 years.

On the date of application, you can apply for hunting license if have completed a safety program within the past 5 years.
>therefore if after 5 years, you will need to retake the safety program

On the date of application, you can apply for MBA if have completed GMAT within the past 5 years.
>therefore if after 5 years, you will need to retake the GMAT

(D) Someone who isn't 18 years old cannot obtain a hunting permit in this state.
-AT LEAST 18, including 18

(E) Hunting is such a dangerous activity that state controls and requirements are necessary to ensure that nobody gets hurt.
-The purpose of the controls was not mentioned.

SOURH7WK · Accepted Answer

IMO correct answer is choice C.
A) All states have the same requirements for hunting permits.  We dont know about laws of other states from stimulus. 
B) Hunters under the age of 21 don’t need to sign the alcohol pledge because they are not legally allowed to drink alcohol under any circumstances.  Cannot be concluded from argument. 
C) If a person last completed the safety program six years ago, he will have to complete the program again before he can be eligible for a permit.   Correct, as req of safety program within last 5 yrs is cited in argument.  
D) Someone who isn’t 18 years old cannot obtain a hunting permit in this state.  It does not clarify about the group >18 yrs & <18 Yrs. 
E) Hunting is such a dangerous activity that state controls and requirements are necessary to ensure that nobody gets hurt.  Out of scope.

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

We are asked to determine what we can infer based upon the given information; on the GMAT, whatever we infer must be based only upon the argument itself and cannot extend beyond the scope of that argument.

(A) The argument says nothing about requirements in other states; this choice is out of scope.

(B) While it may be illegal for those under 21 to consume alcohol, the argument makes no mention of special rules for this age category. Indeed, the argument says that "hunters" have to sign the pledge, not just "hunters aged 21 and over."

(C) CORRECT.  The argument says that the hunter must have completed a safety program within the past five years. If he has not, then he will have to do so before he can be eligible for a permit. (Note that this choice doesn't say he will get a permit if he completes the program again; we don't know what other requirements he may not meet. We only know that he will have to retake the program, at least, before he can become eligible.)

(D) This choice mentions someone who "isn't 18 years old." Someone who isn't 18 can be either younger than 18 or older than 18 and, according to the argument, those older than 18 are eligible for permits if they complete all of the requirements.

(E) While this may be true as a general rule, it is outside of the scope of the argument, which mentions nothing about danger or why these rules were enacted. In addition, any requirements cannot "ensure" that nobody ever gets hurt; they can only help to minimize risks.

navigator123 · Answer

How could option  C  be correct?

May be he could & be eligible for the permit in some other state. Isn't this option covers all the states than the "certain" state that is discussed in the stimulus?

kavach · Answer

In a certain state, hunting permits require the hunter to be at least 18 years old, possess a valid driver's license or state identification, and have completed a safety program within the past 5 years. The hunter must also sign a legal document pledging not to consume alcohol while hunting.

Which of the following can be correctly inferred from the above statements?

This is a quality question. Kudos to the author.

(A) All states have the same requirements for hunting permits.  We have no info about ALL the states, we only know about a CERTAIN state.

(B) Hunters under the age of 21 don't need to sign the alcohol pledge because they are not legally allowed to drink alcohol under any circumstances. We are not told anything about that.

(C) If a person last completed the safety program six years ago, he will have to complete the program again before he can be eligible for a permit in this state. Yes this is the correct answer, matching with the stem

(D) Someone who isn't 18 years old cannot obtain a hunting permit in this state. This is a shell game. It's very important to be literal on the GMAT. "Some who isn't 18 means he/she could be 15 or 22...."

(E) Hunting is such a dangerous activity that state controls and requirements are necessary to ensure that nobody gets hurt. Extreme nothing is told about this.

The answer is C.

bae · Answer

In a certain state, hunting permits require the hunter to be at least 18 years old, possess a valid driver's license or state identification, and have completed a safety program within the past 5 years. The hunter must also sign a legal document pledging not to consume alcohol while hunting.

(A) All states have the same requirements for hunting permits.
In a certain state,

(B) Hunters under the age of 21 don't need to sign the alcohol pledge because they are not legally allowed to drink alcohol under any circumstances.
Eligible hunters must sign the pledge, including those of 18,19, and 20

(C) If a person last completed the safety program six years ago, he will have to complete the program again before he can be eligible for a permit in this state. (Rephrase of the original sentence).
-OK. hunting permits require to have completed a safety program within the past 5 years.

On the date of application, you can apply for hunting license if have completed a safety program within the past 5 years.
>therefore if after 5 years, you will need to retake the safety program

On the date of application, you can apply for MBA if have completed GMAT within the past 5 years.
>therefore if after 5 years, you will need to retake the GMAT

(D) Someone who isn't 18 years old cannot obtain a hunting permit in this state.
-AT LEAST 18, including 18

(E) Hunting is such a dangerous activity that state controls and requirements are necessary to ensure that nobody gets hurt.
-The purpose of the controls was not mentioned.

winterschool · Answer

another problem with

(D) Someone who isn't 18 years old cannot obtain a hunting permit in this state.

18 years old cannot obtain a hunting permit in this state - it cant be inferred from argument, from argument can say they are not eligible but cant say they cant obtain

siddhantvarma · Answer

(C) is clearly the best answer choice here. I do want to pick an experts' brains on the language of (C). (C) states that:

The above isn't necessarily true because it states "the safety program". This implies the answer choice says that if a person completed a specific safety program 6 years ago, they'll have to do the  same program  again to be eligible for a permit. But that isn't necessarily true because the stimulus states that:

This means one of the requirements is to complete a safety program => any safety program will work. If one of their previous safety program expired, they need not do the same program again, they can do a different one, so in terms of language, I feel (C) isn't air-tight.

A more air-tight version of (C) would be:
(C) If a person last completed a safety program six years ago, he will have to complete another program again before he can be eligible for a permit in this state.

Or is it a reasonable assumption here that there is a single safety program that must be completed and the programs stimulus and answer choice talk about are the same?

KarishmaB   GMATNinja

KarishmaB · Answer

You are overthinking it here. Typically there would be a central safety program under which, say, 10 day courses would be run at regular intervals. 
"completed a safety program' means did a 10 day course. 
'If a person last completed the safety program' means took one of the courses and completed it.

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