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The unemployment rate in Catunah was greater than 10 percent for years. Then, in an effort to increase employment, the government started offering free work skills training to unemployed people. Since then, the unemployment rate has decreased to around 7 percent. These results provide evidence that helping people to acquire work skills facilitates their finding employment.

Which of the following is an assumption necessary for arriving at the above conclusion?

a) The government of Catunah will continue to offer free work skills training until the unemployment rate is at what is considered a normal level, 6 percent.

b) The training offered by the government was designed to help people acquire key skills required for working at certain types of companies located in Catunah.

c) The reason the unemployment rate in Catunah decreased is that many unemployed people left to find work in other countries.

d) Some people who received the work skills training offered by the government of Catunah subsequently found employment.

e) The unemployment rate in Catunah will decrease further if the government continues to offer free work skills training.




Answer: (d)
but, option (c) also makes sense? why should we eliminate (c)?

Answer C would actually weaken the argument as it’s saying that the reason why the rate decreased is not tied with the training but with something else, in this case we’re looking for the assumption we’re not trying to weaken the argument

how could you assume that people left Catunah based on what the paragraph is saying?

i mainly focused on decreasing the unemployment

the negation technique very well for this assumption question

can you explain the negation technique for this point, i got confused in the negation technique of this



The boom in the freshly brewed tea business in Krztanza will end when the consumer learns that a serving of Krztanzian style freshly brewed tea often contains an amount of caffeine equivalent to that in up to eight cans of a popular energy drink and has as many calories as does an entire meal. Packaged tea contains less caffeine and has fewer calories than does Krztanzian style freshly brewed tea and is available in most grocery stores and even in many stores where freshly brewed coffee is sold.

Which of the following is an assumption upon which the argument depends?

1)Consumers in Krztanza do not mind high levels of caffeine and high calorie counts in their freshly brewed coffee.
2) Although Krztanzian style freshly brewed tea is less healthy than packaged tea, it has become very popular.
3) Consumers in Krztanza do not prefer high calorie beverages that contain high levels of caffeine.
4)Krztanzian style freshly brewed tea could be improved via reducing its levels of calories and caffeine.
5) Ultimately, the consumption of tea in Krztanza will decrease because packaged tea contains fewer calories and caffeine.

What is the conclusion in this?
I am not able to determine
Answer: (3)

Option 3
The question is to determine- the argument/ assumption that will support the statement that the freshly brewed tea business in krztanza will come to an end if:
(3) consumers don’t want to drink such high calorie beverages

SC Questions October - 11 :

Q1. Elysium Field Construction planned to build a ten-story building the suburban downtown, but due to unstable bedrock in that region, the entire project may have to be canceled.

(A) due to unstable bedrock in that region, the entire project may have to be canceled

(B) the cancellation of the entire project may be brought about, due to unstable bedrock in that region

(C) cancelling the entire project, an unavoidable consequence, because of unstable bedrock in that region

(D) with the unstable bedrock in that region, the entire project is possibly canceled

(E) unstable bedrock in that region may necessitate the cancellation of this entire project



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. Once the physiological effects and anesthetic qualities of diethyl ether were demonstrated and with its superiority to chloroform being proved by William Morton, the medical community rapidly adopted it as the anesthetic of choice.

(A) and with its superiority to chloroform being

(B) and its superiority to chloroform

(C) and its superiority over chloroform had been

(D) its superiority over chloroform

(E) with its superiority to chloroform having been



Difficulty - Hard

Because of the idiom superiority to?

No. Because of past perfect tense used in C. Answer is B.

A. Because subjunctive verb is used correctly.

C

I think Superiority to and superiority over both are correct usage

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CR Questions October - 11 :

Q1. Many companies that sell computer software are trying to increase the productivity of their programmers, measured by the lines of code written in one day by a programmer. One method attempted by some companies is to let programmers work from home. Programmers who work from home do not need to commute to and from work and can therefore spend more of the day writing code. Therefore, companies that allow their programmers to work from home will see a corresponding increase in the productivity of those programmers.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?


A. Before the advent of virtual private network technology, working outside of the office presented security risks unacceptable to most companies.

B. Programmers write more effective code when they are able to work in a comfortable environment.

C. Companies that allow employees to work from home can see reductions in certain expenses, such as electricity and building upkeep.

D. Most older companies oppose allowing employees to work from home, whereas most newer companies support employees working from home.

E. The number of lines of code a programmer writes per hour is relatively constant.



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. Ninety percent of recent car buyers say safety was an important factor in their purchase. Yet of these car buyers, only half consulted objective sources of vehicle safety information before making their purchase; the others relied on advertisements and promotional materials. Thus, these other buyers were mistaken in saying that safety was important to them.


The argument’s conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

(A) Someone who claims that safety was an important factor in a buying decision does not necessarily mean that safety was the most important factor.

(B) Advertisements and promotional materials sometimes provide incomplete vehicle safety information.

(C) Recent car buyers do not necessarily tell the truth when asked about the factors that contributed to their vehicle purchases.

(D) Most consumers are aware that advertisements and promotional materials are not objective sources of vehicle safety information.

(E) Anyone to whom safety is an important factor in purchasing a car will consult an objective source of vehicle safety information before buying.



Difficulty - Hard

In order to reduce the number of vehicles traveling over the speed limit, the Town of Commerce recently installed on its highways automated cameras that detect speeding vehicles. While the cameras cannot detect speeding vehicles at night, since the introduction of the cameras, the number of speeding vehicles detected each day by the cameras has sharply declined. Clearly, the presence of the cameras is deterring from speeding those drivers who would otherwise speed.
Each of the following, if true, is an assumption upon which the argument depends EXCEPT:
a) The number of vehicles using the highways in Commerce has not significantly declined since the introduction of the cameras.
b) Drivers of vehicles on the highways of Commerce do not slow to the speed limit when approaching the cameras, and then exceed the speed limit after passing the cameras.
c) The cameras recently installed to detect speeding vehicles on the highways in Commerce have not critically malfunctioned since their installation.
d) Most drivers who speed on highways in Commerce have not changed their habits
recently, going from doing most of their driving during daylight hours to doing most of it at night.
e) The population of the Town of Commerce has not significantly increased over the period of time since the cameras to detect speeding vehicles were installed.

Answer: (e)
Why (e) is not an assumption?

If we negate (e), we will get
The population of the Town of Commerce has significantly increased over the period of time since the cameras to detect speeding vehicles were installed.
->This will lead to increase in vehicles, so there might be increase in speedy vehicles also, and in our conclusion it is told that there is decreament in speedy vehicles.
so if this statement is not true, then our conclusion is falling apart.
Therefore this option should also be an assumption.
Can anyone tell please

When is the correct answer revealed?

It’s an overstretch to think that increase in population will lead to increase in vehicle and that will lead to increase in speedy vehicle. In the argument there is no mention of a correlation of population and vehicles overspeeding. GMAT would never expect you to overstretch. Additionally, in your explanation itself you have mentioned that it ’might’ lead to increase in overspeeding. So there is a possibility that it might not. Therefore, it won’t hurt the argument. An assumption would definitely hurt the argument.