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I have a question from focus mock, can anyone help me with it

Jacob: Public funding of the arts is worthwhile for our city because publicly funded art makes the city more attractive to new residents and businesses, thus enhancing the city’s tax base.
Andrew: That argument is misguided. Art’s true value lies in being a profound expression of human nature. Funding art solely in order to reach economic goals debases it by disregarding its intrinsic value.
Based on their statements, Jacob and Andrew most clearly disagree about whether
• a sufficient rationale for public funding of the arts in the city is the potential effects on the city’s tax base
• publicly funding the arts in the city would make the city more attractive to new residents and businesses
• public funding of the arts is likely to be economically worthwhile for the city
• publicly funding the arts in the city would lower the artistic quality of the arts there
• funding the arts while respecting art’s intrinsic value necessarily entails ignoring issues concerning what monetary costs are reasonable

this is from focus mock 3

I like B and E for today’s sentence correction questions

you can post your solution in question thread and get a kudos. Also your explanation could be helpful for others or you can discuss with others about solution

Check the note in the fist post:

"The OA will be automatically revealed on Wednesday 3rd of January 2024 01:30:13 PM Pacific Time Zone".

CR Questions January - 12 :

Q1. The paintings of French painter Trianne Dejere sold best in the period following the production of La Triump now Dejere’s most famous piece. In the 12-month period preceding the unveiling of this piece, Dejere sold 57% of the works she produced in this period, a far greater percentage than in previous years. In the 12-month period following a glowing review of La Triumph in a popular magazine, however, Dejere sold 85% of the paintings she produced. Interestingly, Dejere’s revenue from painting sales was roughly the same in both periods, since she sold the same number of paintings in the 12 months before presenting La Triumph as she did in the 12 months following the favorable review.

Which of the following statements can be properly concluded from the passage, if the information above is true?


(A) Due to the positive review, Dejere was able to charge substantially more for the works produced after La Triumph than the works produced before it.

(B) Dejere was more concerned with positive reviews than with increasing the prices of her paintings.

(C) The positive review of La Triumph brought Dejere’s work to the attention of more art collectors than were previously aware of her work.

(D) Dejere painted fewer works in the 12-month period following the review of La Triumph than she had in the 12-month period preceding its unveiling.

(E) Dejere paid more attention to marketing her paintings after La Triumph received such a positive reception

Q2. Because of the rising costs of gasoline, a small bus company has decided to decrease the number of weekend trips it runs to a nearby metropolitan area by one third. It will not lose any riders, because the decreased number of trips is adequate for the existing number of weekend riders. The company will save substantially on fuel costs and will have one fewer driver working on weekends. Moreover, the bus company will continue to raise revenue through print advertising inside the bus and on the bus ’ s exterior.

Which of the following if true, provides the strongest evidence that the bus company ’ s profits are likely to decrease if the company implements the plan?

a) Many of the weekend riders would continue riding the bus even if the fare was increased.

b)Most of the advertisers will continue to spend the same amount on advertising per mile and the displaced weekend driver will not earn more by switching to a weekday route at the company.

c) The displaced weekend driver will earn the same salary driving on weekdays and the advertisers will increase their advertising on the weekend.

d) Maintenance costs per bus will remain constant.

e) The increased cost of fuel increases the operating costs of one round trip by twenty per cent.



Difficulty - Hard

CR1: E CR2: B - Both looks to be in the "Easy" category. But fun to solve.

I should have an answer. You can reset the free tests unlimited number of times but you should be able to get at least two unique tests out of every single free one. Potentially three without any repeats. You can obviously reset them as many times as you want.

For the paid tests, supposedly they can be reset once and you can get two unique tests out of each. You can only have one reset for the paid tests.

It’s a good question. Unfortunately we don’t know yet. There are several ways to influence an adaptive algorithm in a test where and choices can be changed and similarly thorough ways to counteract these hacks. The reality however is that because the test database is limited, even if you get an arithmetic question right in quant and your next question should be harder algebra question but the database has only easy algebra questions, you’ll get an easy question similarly if you get the question wrong and you’re supposed to get an easy probability question, but the database only has hard probability questions, you’ll get a hard probability question so there is variance in question difficulty simply because of the database size. Back to your question, GMAC claims that supposedly the three and choices don’t impact the final score but who knows for sure…. Ultimately we haven’t been able to get enough information about the algorithm to determine or to get a good understanding of it like we had in the version of the test.

Personally, I wouldn’t worry too much about how the difficulties determined and focus on how you can get as many questions answered correctly as possible.

Difficulty levels have been updated to match the focus edition scores. Some are missing. Not an important feature, just telling. e.g. critical-reasoning-question-directory-topic-and-difficulty-128861.html#p1056423

The question asks which of the statements furthers the conclusion given in the question. In C , if Vernia’s output is less than Sylvania, then it is possible that Vernia could produce less output than Borodia as we are not given any evidence of Vernia’s output being more than Borodia’s

Hello.
I got a question.

Mike has listened to songs a total number of 870 hours after getting his new phone. How many days is required for him, listening 10 hours per day to reach that 870 hours of play time?

GMAT OG, OG Review, OG Advanced. If all this isn’t enough, please move on to LSAT CR and RCs. They are tough, but mastering them makes the GMAT verbal a cakewalk.

There are some topics on assumptions written quite well. Assumptions are always unstated. So it is not a repeat or conclusion. An assumption is an invisible bridge between the statements and the conclusion. If you break the assumption, the bridge is gone and conclusion will not work. Finding assumptions is actually a fun exercise.

 

We are not. This assumption is specious because it is possible that drinking cold water led to 'infection X' and it is 'infection X' that caused the sickness. In other words, 'infection X' induces sickness, and 'infection X' could get triggered by various causes, one of the causes being drinking cold water. The conclusion in the question I have shared is this: When hormone X exceeds normal concentrations, tremors are induced. So, hormone X's exceeding normal concentrations could lead to a hormonal imbalance, and another hormone, hormone Y, may get impacted, leading to tremors. So, my question to you is this: Why should no other hormone other than X that causes tremors be an assumption?­