G: The group of works exhibited in this year’s Metropolitan Art Show

Question

G:  The group of works exhibited in this year’s Metropolitan Art Show reveals a bias in favor of photographers. Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show, yet more photographs were exhibited than either sculptures or paintings. As you know, each artist was allowed to submit work in one medium only.

H:  How could there have been bias? All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only those works—were exhibited in the show.

If both G’s assertions and H’s assertion are true, which one of the following must also be true?

(A) More photographers than sculptors or painters submitted works to be considered for exhibition in the Metropolitan Art Show.

(B) All the works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show met the traditional criteria for the show.

(C) The quality of photographs exhibited in the metropolitan Art Show was inferior to the quality of the sculptures or paintings exhibited.

(D) Some of the photographs submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show.

(E) More works that met the traditional criteria for the Metropolitan Art Show were submitted by photographers than by sculptors or painters

Bunuel · Accepted Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

(A) No. G states “ Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show. ” However, this allows the photographers to submit more items each than the sculptors and painters.

(B) No. H’s statements imply that some works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show: “ All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only those works—were exhibited in the show. ”

(C) No. We know only that the quality of objects displayed—photographs, sculptures, and paintings—met or surpassed the traditional criteria. We are given
no information about the relative quality of the different types of works.

(D) No. H’s statements imply that some works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show: “ All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only those works—were exhibited in the show. ” However, we do not have enough information to determine whether any of these works were photographs.

(E) Yes.  G states only that equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works. This allows the photographers to submit more items each than the sculptors. For example, each photographer may have submitted 10 photographs, whereas each sculptor may have submitted only 1 sculpture.

honneeey · Answer

Hi Expert,

How is "A" different from "E"?

I chose "A" and I am unable to differentiate between "A" and "E".

Please help.

abhi1693 · Answer

Hi,

If you carefully read H's assertion he says it's necessary for the all artwork submitted must meet the traditional criteria—and only those works—would be exhibited in the show.

E specifies this fact.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

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ankujgupta · Answer

Wanted to clarify one thing. G say "Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show," The question stem says that both H and G assertion are true. Isn't E contradicting G's statement

Nightmare007 · Answer

A - is a could be true answer - 2nd guy states that ALL ITEMS THAT ARE SUBMITTED AND MET THE CRITERIA ARE DISPLAYED. according to A = if more photographers have given but very few met the criteria ? E - states clearly . as we are not worried about no of photographers but no pf photographs met criteria for display . +kudos if this helped you

ashwinreddy3033 · Answer

this is a disguised resolve the paradox type question

devlin · Answer

Hi everyone. I got a little confused when I tried to identify the type of this question. I stayed between an assumption and a paradox question. Wich one of them is the type of this question? Or neither of them?

robu1 · Answer

we can have same number of each artist . but each artist can submit many representations meeting the criteria in his field. therefore E is correct.

nedunurianurag · Answer

It is neither of these two types. This is a must be true question as it clearly asks to point out which of the answers "Must be True" IF THE CLAIMS BY BOTH ARE TRUE.

gvij2017 · Answer

Now I got the catch of this argument.

The number of PH,SC and PA is same. Ok. 
But more photos than sculpture and painting. 
No biasing.

Means more photos meeting the traditional criteria. 
E goes along with above logic.

honey1 · Answer

hey can you plz help me with this question
G say "Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show," The question stem says that both H and G assertion are true. Isn't option E contradicting G's statement as option E says that 
More works that met the traditional criteria for the Metropolitan Art Show were submitted by photographers than by sculptors or painters but G says the work submitted by photographers, sculptors, and painters were in equal number if they are in equal number than how can more More works that met the traditional criteria were submitted by photographers

Fdambro294 · Answer

The language says that an equal number of PEOPLE from Each of the 3 groups submitted works that met the criteria.

It does NOT say how MANY acceptable works were submitted by EACH PERSON.

So, say we have 5 ppl in each category:

5 photographers

5 sculptors

5 painters

And we are told that the displayed photographs are GREATER than Either the displayed sculptures OR paintings.

And we know that “EVERY piece of work that met the criteria was displayed.”

The only way ALL of these facts can be TRUE at the same time is if the 5 photographers submitted MORE work that met the criteria than the 5 sculptors or 5 painters did.

This is what E tells us.

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CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

Pre-thinking:

We have the following facts presented by G and H:

i) Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria.
ii) Each artist was allowed to submit work in one medium only.
iii) All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only those works—were exhibited.
iv) More photographs were exhibited than either sculptures or paintings.

All the above statements can be true in only scenario - more photographs meeting the criteria were submitted than either sculptures or paintings. This does not contradict (i) since (i) only talks about the  number of photographers, sculptors, and painters , not the  number of works  submitted by each. Hence, it is possible that an equal number of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted more photographs than sculptures or paintings (for example, if the average number of photographs submitted  per photographer  is more than the average number of sculptures submitted  per sculptor  or average number of paintings submitted  per painter .

Let us examine the answer options:

(A) More photographers than sculptors or painters submitted works to be considered for exhibition in the Metropolitan Art Show.  This contradicts (i) which is explicitly stated in the stimulus and hence cannot be true. Eliminate.

(B) All the works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show met the traditional criteria for the show.  All the works  displayed  met the criteria, not all the works  submitted . Eliminate.

(C) The quality of photographs exhibited in the metropolitan Art Show was inferior to the quality of the sculptures or paintings exhibited.  None of the claims in the stimulus pertain to quality. Eliminate.

(D) Some of the photographs submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show.  We know that (probably, since the stimulus states "only those works were exhibited") some of the  works  submitted did not meet the criteria but we cannot be sure that there were some photographs among these. Eliminate.

(E) More works that met the traditional criteria for the Metropolitan Art Show were submitted by photographers than by sculptors or painters.  Correct answer and consistent with our pre-thinking.

Hope this helps.

kntombat · Answer

If both G’s assertions and H’s assertion are true, which one of the following must also be true?

(A) More photographers than sculptors or painters submitted works to be considered for exhibition in the Metropolitan Art Show. (The stimulus clearly states that equal number of photographers, sculptors and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria to be selected.  Therefore, this option is wrong .)

(B) All the works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show met the traditional criteria for the show. ( This answer cannot be considered , as it does not give any reason as to why more photographs were displayed compared to paintings and sculptures.)

(C) The quality of photographs exhibited in the metropolitan Art Show was inferior to the quality of the sculptures or paintings exhibited.( If the photographs were of poor quality then they wouldn't have met the traditional which they did according to the stimulus,  Wrong answer )

(D) Some of the photographs submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional criteria for the show. (irrelevant.)

(E) More works that met the traditional criteria for the Metropolitan Art Show were submitted by photographers than by sculptors or painters. ( This is our Answer , as this gives a valid reason as to why most of the works displayed in the exhibition were photographs and not sculptures or paintings.)

The OA is E

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