Last year, as part of their Plans for Economic Reform, the state offic

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Last year, as part of their Plans for Economic Reform, the state officials of Rostoria introduced, in both the public and private sectors, a record number of employment generation schemes, which together generated a record number of new jobs in the Rostorian economy. This year too, the officials must introduce a record number of such schemes in order to break last year’s record for new jobs created. This is because last year’s schemes will not be adding as many new jobs overall this year as they added last year.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the suggestion relies?

A - Last year, the overall employment generated was greater than the employment lost.

B - The number of jobs created by older employment generation schemes is likely to be less than the number of jobs lost due to various economic and non-economic causes.

C - This year, fewer employment generation schemes than last year will not generate substantially more jobs per scheme than did new schemes last year.

D - The public and the private sectors are unlikely to add a greater number of jobs this year than last year.

E - At any given time, the newly introduced employment generation schemes create more new jobs overall than do previously introduced employment generation schemes.

Dev23 · Accepted Answer

Last year

1. X new schemes were launched
2 Y new jobs were created

In order to create Y++ jobs this year X++ new schemes should be launched

Assumption - Y can increase only if X increases. Increase in jobs per scheme cannot lead to Y++ jobs

RahulHGGmat · Answer

Hi Expert,

Request your expertise on this argument and explain to me why option E cannot be the answer choice.

IMO C cannot be the answer as there are exceptions to this case.

Suppose last year 100 schemes were introduced and each scheme results in 20 jobs which generated 2000 total jobs. This year 40 new schemes were introduced and each scheme brings about 45 new jobs which result in 1800 new jobs. Hence this cannot be an answer choice in my opinion.

Looking for a prompt response ahead.

Alok756 · Answer

In every assumption question we need to find the answer which is leading to the conclusion. And answer choice C is just doing that. If you read again you will see that the comparison between last year's and this year's "NUMBER of Schemes" play an important role. I hope this helps.

Oppenheimer1945 · Answer

E - At any given time, the newly introduced employment generation schemes create more new jobs overall than do previously introduced employment generation schemes.

Is "At any given time" leading to the falsification of option E?

What if it were :
 Any year, the newly introduced employment generation schemes create more new jobs overall than do previous year's introduced employment generation schemes.

jim441 · Answer

How to choose between C & E?

Piotrek · Answer

Hey, could you please explain why D is wrong? I think it passes negation test.

My rationale is that it is a necessary assumption, because if public and private sector add a greater number of jobs this year than previous year, perhaps it will not be necessary to add more schemes to increase number of new jobs created?

On the other hand, if public and private sector won't add a greater number jobs it is necessary to create more jobs by creating more schemes.

Having said that, I understand why C is correct. Just want to understand what is wrong with D and where did I go wrong?

Cheers!

gurugmat · Answer

Hi  rahul

Author of a critical reasoning argument draws his/her conclusion using premise(s) and assumption. In finding assumption questions we are looking for a piece of information which is necessary for the conclusion to hold true. Here the conclusion is  'the officials must introduce a record number of such schemes in order to break last year’s record for new jobs created.'  This conclusion is based on the premise that  last year a record number of employment generation schemes were introduced which generated a record number of new jobs in the Rostorian economy. So, what else do we need for the conclusion to be valid. What if this year, fewer employment generation schemes generate more jobs per scheme than did new schemes last year. If that were to be true the officials need not introduce a record number of schemes to break last year’s record for new jobs created. Option C says this is not the case. So, Option C is the right answer.

liyajoshi · Answer

i cannot able to understand why the answer is C but according to me the correct answer is E because the information says that we need to break the record last year so, if we introduce some schemes in this year so, we get more jobs so, E should be the correct option.

Anupama_1090 · Answer

E does not talk about the number of schemes that should be introduced, the comparison in E is only between the new and the old schemes. But our conclusion will hold for more NUMBER of new schemes to be introduced.. hence E does not help it and C does.

Manasguddu · Answer

Look at it from this view, an assumption which is defending against any weakener. Option C does just that. Option on the other hand, D is talking about the sectors not the scheme and conclusion is concerned about effect of schemes in the private and public sectors

Snehaaaaa · Answer

Option E acts as a weakener. If this were true, then there would be no requirement for more schemes this year since the same number of schemes would end up creating a greater number of jobs.

gurugmat · Answer

Conclusion says 'the officials must introduce a record number of such schemes in order to break last year’s record for new jobs created.' In other words, Author says 'more schemes equals to more jobs.' Author is assuming that only by adding new schemes will we be able to generate more jobs. Option C says that exactly by stating that fewer schemes this year won't generate more jobs per scheme than was the case last year. Hope this helps.

nqp18 · Answer

Also one more thing option C sounds like a restatement to me so how can option C be the choice

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