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
we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Track Your Progress
every week, we’ll send you an estimated GMAT score based on your performance
Practice Pays
we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
It appears that you are browsing the GMAT Club forum unregistered!
Signing up is free, quick, and confidential.
Join other 500,000 members and get the full benefits of GMAT Club
Registration gives you:
Tests
Take 11 tests and quizzes from GMAT Club and leading GMAT prep companies such as Manhattan GMAT,
Knewton, and others. All are free for GMAT Club members.
Applicant Stats
View detailed applicant stats such as GPA, GMAT score, work experience, location, application
status, and more
Books/Downloads
Download thousands of study notes,
question collections, GMAT Club’s
Grammar and Math books.
All are free!
Thank you for using the timer!
We noticed you are actually not timing your practice. Click the START button first next time you use the timer.
There are many benefits to timing your practice, including:
From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Jan 2013, 06:33
00:00
A
B
C
D
E
Difficulty:
95% (hard)
Question Stats:
35% (02:20) correct
65% (01:40) wrong based on 179 sessions
HideShow timer Statistics
From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest on-time overnight delivery rate of the six major delivery companies in the country. From 2005 to 2006, however, Unlimited Postal Service had the lowest on-time overnight delivery rate of the six major delivery companies. The on-time overnight delivery ranking of the other five companies relative to each other remained unchanged.
Which of the following, if true, would most contribute to an explanation of the facts above?
In early 2005, Unlimited Postal Service stopped taking overnight deliveries after 1:00 PM to ensure that the deliveries would be made according to schedule.
In a drastic cost-cutting measure, Unlimited Postal Service laid off 10 percent of its employees in early 2005.
Unlimited Postal Service implemented a new electronic package tracking system in early 2005 in order to improve delivery speed and efficiency.
In response to cuts to their retirement benefits, Unlimited Postal Service's delivery personnel went on a company-wide strike for all of February 2005.
Although all six delivery companies try to keep their overnight deliveries on schedule, increased security measures at many airports increased delays in deliveries originating in the cities those airports serve. Source: Veritas Prep
Official Answer and Stats are available only to registered users. Register/Login.
_________________
Rgds, TGC! _____________________________________________________________________ I Assisted You => KUDOS Please _____________________________________________________________________________
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Jan 2013, 06:56
Marcab wrote:
Hey man...I thought the answer to be B. Don't have any idea how D is better than B? Can we have the OE please.
Hi Marcab,
Plz justify (B). as IMO these 10% employees can be of any department.Not certainly from delivery department.
Why not A,Had they closed taking orders after 1:00 PM today they will have less orders to be delivered tomorrow,what say??????
_________________
Rgds, TGC! _____________________________________________________________________ I Assisted You => KUDOS Please _____________________________________________________________________________
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Jan 2013, 08:54
Hi - I agree with Marcab,
B is a good candidate. Please can we have the OE?
A is definietely wrong though. If they stopped taking orders after 1, this would make it more likely the orders they do take being delivered on time goes up. We're talking about 'rate' so % complete not total number.
_________________
Former GMAT Pill student, now on staff. Used GMATPILL OG 12 and nothing else: 770 (48,48) & 6.0
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Jan 2013, 10:10
1
This post received KUDOS
Here is OE Correct Answer: D
This is an 'explain the paradox' question. The correct answer must explain how Unlimited Postal Service went from first to last in on-time overnight delivery rate, even though the other five companies' relative positions stayed the same. Something drastic must have happened to affect Unlimited Parcel Service that did NOT affect the other companies. Answer choice (D) could explain how Unlimited Parcel Service's on-time delivery rate dropped; its delivery personnel were on strike for an entire month while its competitors were operating as normal. Answers (A) and (C) would actually make the paradox even stronger. Answer (B) is irrelevant; we do not know what type of employees were laid off (it might have been only the legal department, which would not affect deliveries). Answer (E) affected all six companies, so it would not explain how only Unlimited Parcel Service's on-time delivery ranking changed.
_________________
Rgds, TGC! _____________________________________________________________________ I Assisted You => KUDOS Please _____________________________________________________________________________
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Jan 2013, 10:28
Ok but in D we have a strike but this could not affect the rate because the strike take place on february and we have a lower rate that reflect an entire year........
i'm skeptical with this question, telling the truth
_________________
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Jan 2013, 10:41
plumber250 wrote:
I agree with Carcass,
Dodgy question.
@Plumber
Moreover the OE says that the 10% of the laided off are employees that do not impact on the rate.
Ok here is the trick: never do an assumption or an inference on a gmat question (as general rule) BUT here my common sense tells me that this group (our 10%) for logic are employees that IMPACT the rate, lowering it
To make a long story short, from the question: I could think that this 10% are employees that affect the rate as well as \(NOT\)
_________________
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest [#permalink]
Show Tags
04 Nov 2013, 11:20
B) In a drastic cost-cutting measure, Unlimited Postal Service laid off 10 percent of its employees in early 2005. Employees is too broad a term. It includes delivery personnel + other employees. So we don't know whether 10% were delivery personnel or others. Also, since we are bothered about on-time delivery rate we need something that affects that rate specifically - Wrong
D) In response to cuts to their retirement benefits, Unlimited Postal Service's delivery personnel went on a company-wide strike for all of February 2005. Bang on! Two things to notice - first this statement directly addresses the issue at hand - low on-time rate - and links it to the delivery personnel. Second- the period covered is from 2005-2006 (12 months - a short period) and if out of those 12 months, your employees are not working for 1 month, while the employees of the other 5 major companies are, it will affect you overall on-time rate. - Correct
_________________
Kudos if the post helped!
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. -H.W. Longfellow
From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest [#permalink]
Show Tags
09 Mar 2017, 09:59
From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest on-time overnight delivery rate of the six major delivery companies in the country. From 2005 to 2006, however, Unlimited Postal Service had the lowest on-time overnight delivery rate of the six major delivery companies. The on-time overnight delivery ranking of the other five companies relative to each other remained unchanged.
Which of the following, if true, would most contribute to an explanation of the facts above?
In early 2005, Unlimited Postal Service stopped taking overnight deliveries after 1:00 PM to ensure that the deliveries would be made according to schedule.
In a drastic cost-cutting measure, Unlimited Postal Service laid off 10 percent of its employees in early 2005.
Unlimited Postal Service implemented a new electronic package tracking system in early 2005 in order to improve delivery speed and efficiency.
In response to cuts to their retirement benefits, Unlimited Postal Service's delivery personnel went on a company-wide strike for all of February 2005.
Although all six delivery companies try to keep their overnight deliveries on schedule, increased security measures at many airports increased delays in deliveries originating in the cities those airports serve.
By the process of elimination ,Option A, C and E are clearly out of scope.
Option B:10 % emploees were fired,but from where or which department? lets assume there are 10 departments and 10 employees in each department and 1 is fired from each department.How much would be the impact...?we are not sure how much.so we keep this on hold.
Option D:Employees from the delivery department went on strike, that means all the rest of the departments were working which includes the employees from the department that collects the post to be deliverd.That means the Unlimited Postal services collected post for one month but did not deliver any for entire 1 month that means the ontime delivery rate reduced by 8.3% directly.
Option D is better detailed and provides a better reason while addressing the paradox in the facts provided.
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest [#permalink]
Show Tags
09 Mar 2017, 12:06
carcass wrote:
plumber250 wrote:
I agree with Carcass,
Dodgy question.
@Plumber
Moreover the OE says that the 10% of the laided off are employees that do not impact on the rate.
Ok here is the trick: never do an assumption or an inference on a gmat question (as general rule) BUT here my common sense tells me that this group (our 10%) for logic are employees that IMPACT the rate, lowering it
To make a long story short, from the question: I could think that this 10% are employees that affect the rate as well as \(NOT\)
I picked A . carcass - this is a question we should skip ?
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest [#permalink]
Show Tags
08 Apr 2017, 08:49
The answer is D. The last line of the question stem is the key to solving. The on-time overnight delivery ranking of the other five companies relative to each other remained unchanged. This means that the delivery companies were handling roughly the similar distribution of workload. If Unlimited postal failed to make deliveries in Feb, then this would cause it to slip to the last ranking.
gmatclubot
Re: From 2004 to 2005, Unlimited Postal Service had the highest
[#permalink]
08 Apr 2017, 08:49
There’s something in Pacific North West that you cannot find anywhere else. The atmosphere and scenic nature are next to none, with mountains on one side and ocean on...
This month I got selected by Stanford GSB to be included in “Best & Brightest, Class of 2017” by Poets & Quants. Besides feeling honored for being part of...
Joe Navarro is an ex FBI agent who was a founding member of the FBI’s Behavioural Analysis Program. He was a body language expert who he used his ability to successfully...
close
35% (02:20) correct
4
