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Curator: If our museum lends Venus to the Hart Institute for their
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Curator: If our museum lends Venus to the Hart Institute for their show this spring, they will lend us their Rembrandt etchings for our print exhibition next fall. Having those etchings will increase attendance to the exhibition and hence increase revenue from our general admission fee.
Museum Administrator: But Venus is our biggest attraction. Moreover the Hart’s show will run for twice as long as our exhibition. So on balance the number of patrons may decrease.
The point of the administrator’s response to the curator is to question
(A) whether getting the Rembrandt etchings from the Hart Institute is likely to increase attendance at the print exhibition
(B) whether the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be appreciated by those patrons of the curator’s museum for whom the museum’s biggest attraction is Venus
(C) whether the number of patrons attracted by the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be larger than the number of patrons who do not come in the spring because Venus is on loan
(D) whether, if Venus is lent, the museum’s revenue from general admission fees during the print exhibition will exceed its revenue from general admission fees during the Hart Institute’s exhibition
(E) whether the Hart Institute or the curator’s museum will have the greater financial gain from the proposed exchange of artworks
Museum Administrator: But Venus is our biggest attraction. Moreover the Hart’s show will run for twice as long as our exhibition. So on balance the number of patrons may decrease.
The point of the administrator’s response to the curator is to question
(A) whether getting the Rembrandt etchings from the Hart Institute is likely to increase attendance at the print exhibition
(B) whether the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be appreciated by those patrons of the curator’s museum for whom the museum’s biggest attraction is Venus
(C) whether the number of patrons attracted by the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be larger than the number of patrons who do not come in the spring because Venus is on loan
(D) whether, if Venus is lent, the museum’s revenue from general admission fees during the print exhibition will exceed its revenue from general admission fees during the Hart Institute’s exhibition
(E) whether the Hart Institute or the curator’s museum will have the greater financial gain from the proposed exchange of artworks
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Re: Curator: If our museum lends Venus to the Hart Institute for their
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Situation A curator and a museum administrator debate whether lending a particular artwork to the Hart Institute in exchange for a loan of some of the Hart Institute's artworks would increase or decrease attendance and revenue at the museum.
Reasoning Which of the curator's explicit or implicit claims is the museum administrator questioning? The administrator's statements that Venus is the museum's biggest attraction and that the Hart Institute's show will run twice as long as the museum's exhibition do not directly conflict with any statement or assumption made by the curator. However, the administrator's conclusion is that on balance the number of patrons at the museum may decrease if the curator's proposal is followed. This conclusion calls into question the curator's claim that the proposal will increase revenue from the general admission fee, since that claim presupposes that on balance the proposal will increase the number of visitors to the museum. (The context suggests that the administrator is using the term patrons to mean visitors rather than donors.)
Option C is Correct. The curator implicitly infers that the former number will be larger than the latter, whereas the administrator questions this by asserting that the latter number may be larger than the former.
Why are other options wrong? :-
A - The administrator does not dispute that the Rembrandt etchings would probably increase attendance at the print exhibition but rather suggests that this increase would be exceeded by the loss of visitors to the museum while the Hart Institute borrows Venus.
B - Neither the curator nor the administrator comments on whether the patrons attracted to the Rembrandt etchings would be the same people attracted to Venus.
D - The administrator does not question whether the revenue during the print exhibition will exceed the revenue during the Hart Institute's exhibition, but rather whether it will exceed the loss of revenue during the Hart Institute's exhibition.
E - Neither the curator nor the administrator comments on whether the museum would gain more or less from the exchange than the Hart Institute would.
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Sarjaria84 wrote:
keats wrote:
Curator: If our museum lends Venus to the Hart Institute for their show this spring, they will lend us their Rembrandt etchings for our print exhibition next fall. Having those etchings will increase attendance to the exhibition and hence increase revenue from our general admission fee.
Museum Administrator: But Venus is our biggest attraction. Moreover the Hart’s show will run for twice as long as our exhibition. So on balance the number of patrons may decrease.
The point of the administrator’s response to the curator is to question
(A) whether getting the Rembrandt etchings from the Hart Institute is likely to increase attendance at the print exhibition
(B) whether the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be appreciated by those patrons of the curator’s museum for whom the museum’s biggest attraction is Venus
(C) whether the number of patrons attracted by the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be larger than the number of patrons who do not come in the spring because Venus is on loan
(D) whether, if Venus is lent, the museum’s revenue from general admission fees during the print exhibition will exceed its revenue from general admission fees during the Hart Institute’s exhibition
(E) whether the Hart Institute or the curator’s museum will have the greater financial gain from the proposed exchange of artworks
Museum Administrator: But Venus is our biggest attraction. Moreover the Hart’s show will run for twice as long as our exhibition. So on balance the number of patrons may decrease.
The point of the administrator’s response to the curator is to question
(A) whether getting the Rembrandt etchings from the Hart Institute is likely to increase attendance at the print exhibition
(B) whether the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be appreciated by those patrons of the curator’s museum for whom the museum’s biggest attraction is Venus
(C) whether the number of patrons attracted by the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be larger than the number of patrons who do not come in the spring because Venus is on loan
(D) whether, if Venus is lent, the museum’s revenue from general admission fees during the print exhibition will exceed its revenue from general admission fees during the Hart Institute’s exhibition
(E) whether the Hart Institute or the curator’s museum will have the greater financial gain from the proposed exchange of artworks
Hi souvik101990 VeritasKarishma GMATNinja
I was stuck between 'C' & 'D' and chose 'D'. My doubt is, isn't option 'D' saying the same thing as option 'C' only in terms of general admission fees, which, as stated in the argument, is directly dependent on patron attendance.
If the "number of patrons attracted by the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be larger than the number of patrons who do not come in the spring because Venus is on loan" then the "the museum’s revenue from general admission fees during the print exhibition (when the museum has Rembrandt etchings) will exceed its revenue from general admission fees during the Hart Institute’s exhibition (in spring when Venus is on loan)".
I chose 'D' over 'C' as it specifically mentioned the print and the Hart Institute’s exhibition.
Please can you help me in understanding where did I falter?
Thanks
Saurabh
Curator: If we lend Venus to the Hart Institute for their show this spring, they will lend us their Rembrandt etchings for our print exhibition next fall. Having those etchings will increase attendance to the exhibition and hence increase revenue.
Museum Administrator: But Venus is our biggest attraction. Moreover the Hart’s show will run for twice as long as our exhibition. So on balance the number of patrons may decrease.
(So will people come to us if Venus is not there? They may go to Hart. Also, Venus will be missing for twice as long. So this spring we may lose more revenue than any additional revenue we may get in half the number of days in fall)
The admin is working on their own overall revenue numbers only based on missing Venus and additional etchings scenario. Hart's revenue is irrelevant to him.
The point of the administrator’s response to the curator is to question
(A) whether getting the Rembrandt etchings from the Hart Institute is likely to increase attendance at the print exhibition
He doesn't question it. He questions the sum total impact of the exchange.
(B) whether the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be appreciated by those patrons of the curator’s museum for whom the museum’s biggest attraction is Venus
Agian, he doesn't question whether the etchings will be appreciated.
(C) whether the number of patrons attracted by the Hart Institute’s Rembrandt etchings will be larger than the number of patrons who do not come in the spring because Venus is on loan
Correct. He is questioning the overall impact - will more people come because of etchings than what we will lose because of missing Venus?
(D) whether, if Venus is lent, the museum’s revenue from general admission fees during the print exhibition will exceed its revenue from general admission fees during the Hart Institute’s exhibition
No. The admin does not question whether they will get more revenue in spring (when Venus is missing) or in fall (when Hart's etchings are obtained) in case of exchange. He is only concerned about the "additional numbers". Will the extra during fall make up for loss during spring in case of exchange?
Note that options (C) and (D) are different. (C) talks about the differential impact of 'obtaining etchings' vs 'losing Venus' - will we lose more customers when Venus is missing or gain more when we have etchings. (D) talks about total revenue in spring vs fall and that which one will be higher. That is irrelevant. We need to see how the exchange has an impact.
Say, normally 1000 visit in spring and 500 in fall.
Say, after the exchange, 800 visit in spring and 600 in fall.
The admin is concerned not with the fact that spring has more visitors, but with the fact that there was a reduction of 200 in spring while addition of only 100 in fall. So (C) is correct.
(E) whether the Hart Institute or the curator’s museum will have the greater financial gain from the proposed exchange of artworks
Irrelevant. He doesn't care about Hart's revenue.
Answer (C)
