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It has been against the law for federal agencies and federal contractors to discriminate against a qualified job applicant because of a disability. Now that Congress has approved legislation to cover private industry as well, the number of disabled people who are involuntarily unemployed will drop substantially.
The author of the above argument must be assuming which of the following?
(A) Many congressmen were reluctant to pass the new legislation to prevent discrimination against the disabled.
(B) The approved legislation would stop discrimination against the disabled in the public and private sectors.
(C) Some private employers in the past deliberately chose not to hire qualified but disabled job applicants.
(D) The federal government currently employs more disabled people than does private industry.
(E) Many diabled people voluntarily choose to remain unemployed.
Please explain your answers.
The author of the above argument must be assuming which of the following?
(A) Many congressmen were reluctant to pass the new legislation to prevent discrimination against the disabled.
(B) The approved legislation would stop discrimination against the disabled in the public and private sectors.
(C) Some private employers in the past deliberately chose not to hire qualified but disabled job applicants.
(D) The federal government currently employs more disabled people than does private industry.
(E) Many diabled people voluntarily choose to remain unemployed.
Please explain your answers.
I found (B) and (C) very close even after using assumption negation. Why is one better than the other?
eyunni
I read somewhere that we should abstain from extreme choices. Just wanted to know about 'some', Is there any specific rule for some ..?? As in the above sentence, even if we negate the choice C, still the argument does not fall apart convincingly.. Any suggestions... ???
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eyunni
A: Irrelevant
B: This is somewhat attempting, but the argument already suggests the legislation will stop legislation.
D: Irrelevant
E: This is a very weak choice.
C: best assumption of all
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C...it makes it clear that some jobs exists for the disabled peopele for which they are qualified.but "some " sure is ambiguous...as how only jobs in "some " companies decrease unemployment substantially
GMATBLACKBELT
Agree with C, here are my thoughts (I want to focus on ruling out incorrect answer choices rather than explain the correct one)
A. irrelevant /out-of-scope as premise does not discuss this.
B. This one is tricky but incorrect as it does not help explain the conclusion
C. Correct
D. irrelevant and also does not help explain the conclusion.
E. Term "voluntarily" in this ans choice contradicts with Term "involuntarily" in the conclusion. So this choice actually weakens the argument.
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It has been against the law for federal agencies and federal contractors to discriminate against a qualified job applicant because of a disability. Now that Congress has approved legislation to expand these existing provisions to cover private industry as well, the number of disabled people who are involuntarily unemployed will drop substantially.
The author of the above argument must be assuming which of the following?
(A) Many congressmen were reluctant to pass the new legislation to prevent discrimination against the disabled.
(B) Some private employers in the past deliberately chose not to hire qualified but disabled job applicants.
(C) The federal government currently employs more disabled people than does private industry.
(D) The approved legislation would stop discrimination against the disabled in the public and private sectors.
(E) Many disabled people voluntarily choose to remain unemployed.
The author of the above argument must be assuming which of the following?
(A) Many congressmen were reluctant to pass the new legislation to prevent discrimination against the disabled.
(B) Some private employers in the past deliberately chose not to hire qualified but disabled job applicants.
(C) The federal government currently employs more disabled people than does private industry.
(D) The approved legislation would stop discrimination against the disabled in the public and private sectors.
(E) Many disabled people voluntarily choose to remain unemployed.
I was between B & D. Picked D. I understand why B is correct but please explain how to eliminate D
Merging Similar Topics. Refer to the solution above. Note that order of the choices is different in original question
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Vineetk
In assumption problems an useful technique is the "negation": you negate an option and if the argument falls apart, it's the correct answer.
Example:
(B) Some private employers in the past deliberately chose not to hire qualified but disabled job applicants.
=> in the past there has been NO discrimination
The argument is destroyed, as even before the new law there was not discrimination=>the legislation won't change anything.
(D) The approved legislation would stop discrimination against the disabled in the public and private sectors.
=> the legislation would NOT stop the discrimination.
The argument is still valid, because you can still discriminate but hire a person and in this case the argument "works".
Do not get confused by similar words/concepts! You can discriminate a person but still hire him, a thing does not exclude the other.
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eyunni
Best Answer choice - C
Conclusion: the number of disabled people who are involuntarily unemployed will drop substantially
Premise: Not only Govt. sectors but also Private sectors did not employ the disabled.
Hint: After passing legislation on Private sector, unemployed will drop substantially - means that private sectors are majorly rejecting the disabled
@Vineetk,
Option D- By negating ->The approved legislation would not stop discrimination against the disabled in the public and private sectors.
even if discrimination is not stopped(completely), we can still have a drop in the number of disabled people.
The conclusion still holds true. Hence, D is not a correct ans.
Please let me know if is not clear to you
Option D- By negating ->The approved legislation would not stop discrimination against the disabled in the public and private sectors.
even if discrimination is not stopped(completely), we can still have a drop in the number of disabled people.
The conclusion still holds true. Hence, D is not a correct ans.
Please let me know if is not clear to you
eyunni
in option B here talk about public as well as private
in my opinion option B and C are somewhat same as in option C "Some private employers in the past deliberately chose not to hire qualified but disabled job applicants" means after this " approved legislation would stop discrimination against the disabled" or vice versa.
anyone pls explain?
eyunni
Focus on the argument of the statement then you will find that C is the only ans which is best of all
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