For years, U.S. employers have counted on a steady flow of labor from

SajjadAhmad
The last 3 added questions are same as question mentioned earlier.
Kindly remove last 3 questions.

Can you post official solution for Q2 ?

Extra Question:
The passage provides evidence to address:
(A) how many children, on average, Mexican women have today
(B) how a smaller average family size in Mexico would likely impact the number of people who migrate to another country in search of work
(C) why the flow of Mexican immigrants to the United States began to diminish
(D) the future impact of Mexico’s family planning campaign on the Mexican middle class
(E) the extent of the disparity that exists between the wealthy elite and those who live in poverty

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Another question from this passage :

The passage provides evidence to address

(A) how many children, on average, Mexican women have today

(B) how a smaller average family size in Mexico would likely impact the number of people who migrate to another country in search of work

(C) why the flow of Mexican immigrants to the United States began to diminish

(D) the future impact of Mexico’s family planning campaign on the Mexican middle class

(E) the extent of the disparity that exists between the wealthy elite and those who live in poverty

Answer (B)

Hi altairahmad,

Done, Thanks.

Hi Experts,

Hope you are doing well.

I have attempted this passage and am not sure whether my answers are correct are not.

I have checked all the posts on this topic and most of them suggest different answers for the same question.

Hence, I would request you to confirm me the correct answers to all the questions along with the reason.

Hi RahulHGGmat,

The answers to all the questions posted currently are correct, its just that earlier the questions had a different order, which is why now since the order has changed and some questions have been added/removed, you see the questions and the post in the different order.

Kindly refer the below post for the Questions and Official Explanations. Let me know if you still have doubts.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/film-scholars-agree-that-hollywood-portrayals-of-america-at-war-follow-145037.html#p1162870
https://gmatclub.com/forum/for-years-u-s-employers-have-counted-on-a-steady-flow-of-labor-from-104161.html#p1128959

Thanks.

OE for question number 4
thanx !

Hi Anshuman0902,

Please refer the OE for Question 4 here, is mentioned as Question 2 in the below link:

https://gmatclub.com/forum/film-scholars-agree-that-hollywood-portrayals-of-america-at-war-follow-145037.html#p1162870


Let me know if you still have doubts.


Thanks.

4. Which of the following is most strongly suggested about U.S. employers of Mexican immigrants?

A. Most of these employers pay illegal Mexican immigrants less money than they pay legal Mexican immigrants.
B. Some of these employers either violate or are exempt from wage laws.
C. Without Mexican immigrants, some of these employers would be forced to close their businesses.
D. Most of these companies employ Mexican immigrants in order to lower their costs and, therefore, increase their profits.
E. The majority of these employers prefer to hire immigrants for low-paying jobs rather than U.S. citizens.

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

Correct answers to “inference” questions will not be stated explicitly in the passage; nevertheless, the information must be true according to information given somewhere in the passage. Wrong answers will often go “too far,” asserting something that might be plausible in the real world but is not directly supported by any specific information given in the passage. The first paragraph mentions United States employers, so the answer should be supported by some information in this paragraph.

(A) No information is provided concerning the wages paid to legal versus illegal Mexican immigrants. The passage discusses Mexican immigrants in general; it never breaks the overall immigrant pool down into legal versus illegal groups.

(B) CORRECT. If some of these immigrant workers are working for wages “well below the U.S. minimum wage,” their American employers must either be exempt from or be violating wage laws (i.e. paying wages below what the U.S. minimum wage requires).

(C) The passage does not suggest that without labor from Mexico these employers will be forced to close. This answer is both too predictive and outside the scope of the argument.

(D) It is likely true in the real world that a company is interested in lowering it costs and increasing its profits. This passage, however, does not provide information about the motivation of the U.S. employers when hiring Mexican immigrants.

(E) The passage suggests nothing about whom employers prefer to hire for low-wage jobs. It merely indicates that some employers do hire immigrants for low-paying jobs.

2. The author includes the third paragraph of the passage in order to

A. illustrate why the number of Mexican immigrants seeking work in the United States is certain to decline
B. detail the successes of Mexico’s family planning campaign
C. explain why the number of Mexicans seeking work in the United States may not dramatically decrease
D. specify the types of infrastructure in which Mexico must invest
E. notify American employers that they must soon find alternative sources of labor

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

The opening sentence of the third paragraph states that there are two primary reasons why Mexico’s changing demographics might reduce immigration to the United States. The author then questions whether the second factor (“the growth of a healthy middle class”) will be achieved. The rest of the paragraph then explains why Mexico may not be able to develop a healthy middle class.

(A) This choice contradicts the message in the third paragraph. The paragraph actually explains why the number of Mexican immigrants to the United States may not decline.

(B) Mexico’s family planning campaign was not mentioned in the third paragraph. This might be an appropriate answer if the question had asked about paragraph two.

(C) CORRECT. The third paragraph says that a “healthy middle class” would help to reduce the number of Mexicans seeking work in the U.S., a theme first introduced in paragraph one The paragraph then raises a question as to whether Mexico will be able to develop a healthy middle class . The purpose of the third paragraph, then, is to indicate uncertainty as to whether Mexican immigration to the U.S. will actually decrease.

(D) Though paragraph three does mention that Mexico would need to invest in infrastructure in order to create a healthy middle class, the author does not include paragraph three in order to discuss specific types of infrastructure. Rather, the infrastructure serves as an example of the kind of thing Mexico would need to do in order to develop a stable middle class – which is the main purpose of the paragraph.

(E) The third paragraph, if anything, calls into question the idea that Mexican immigration to the U.S. will decline dramatically. Further, the paragraph makes no mention of the U.S. or what U.S. businesses might need to do if immigration does eventually decline.

any explanation for Q 5?

seems very tricky

In Q4, can someone explain why option B is correct?

The passage mentions that the Mexican workers are 'willing' to work for wages below the minimum wage but there is no evidence to suggest that there are actually some workers who work for wages below the minimum wage.

Hey, thank you for the reply Sajjad.
But I am still confused as to why the answer explanation assumes that there are some workers who work for wages below the minimum wage. The passage does not explicitly state that anywhere.
GMATNinja Sajjad1994

Hi rohan2029

First of all, for an inference question, there is no need for something inferable to be explicitly mentioned in the passage, it may or may not be explicitly mentioned in the passage.

No coming to you question, it is clearly mentioned in paragraph 1 that:

many of whom leave economically depressed villages in the Mexican interior, are often more than willing to work for wages well below both the U.S.

Here is the complete paragraph 1:

For years, U.S. employers have counted on a steady flow of labor from Mexico willing to accept low-skilled, low paying jobs. These workers, many of whom leave economically depressed villages in the Mexican interior, are often more than willing to work for wages well below both the U.S. minimum wage and the poverty line. However, thanks to a dramatic demographic shift currently taking place in Mexico, the seemingly inexhaustible supply of workers migrating from Mexico to the United States might one day greatly diminish if not cease. Predictions of such a drastic decrease in the number of Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, are driven by Mexico’s rapidly diminishing population growth.

See the bold underlined text above.

Hey Sajjad,
Thank you so much for the detailed reply.

Yeah, the passage states that the Mexican workers are more than 'willing' to work but it does not state that there actually are some workers who are working for less than the minimum wage. Option B says that some US employers are either exempt from wage laws or violate them. For this inference to be true, we need to assume that there actually are some Mexican workers who get paid less than the minimum wage. But the passage does not give us enough information to make this assumption. There could be a situation where though the workers are willing to work for less than the minimum wage, the employers insist on paying them the minimum wage.

Am I missing something with my reasoning?

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4. Which of the following is most strongly suggested about U.S. employers of Mexican immigrants?

A. Most of these employers pay illegal Mexican immigrants less money than they pay legal Mexican immigrants.
B. Some of these employers either violate or are exempt from wage laws.
C. Without Mexican immigrants, some of these employers would be forced to close their businesses.
D. Most of these companies employ Mexican immigrants in order to lower their costs and, therefore, increase their profits.
E. The majority of these employers prefer to hire immigrants for low-paying jobs rather than U.S. citizens.

From the passage:
For years, U.S. employers have counted on a steady flow of labor from Mexico willing to accept low-skilled, low paying jobs. These workers, many of whom leave economically depressed villages in the Mexican interior, are often more than willing to work for wages well below both the U.S. minimum wage and the poverty line.

US employers have counted on these people who are willing to work for wages below US minimum wage. So US employers have employed them at the low wages. This implies that some of these employers either violate or are exempt from wage laws.

Besides, note that that question asks for "which of the following is most strongly suggested ..."
It is something that is strongly suggested, not proved without doubt. Hence the small element of doubt is taken care of.

Answer (B)
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Can someone explain Question 6?