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Thanks bb. So I tried to approximate TripleClick: Profit margin = 72/232 which approximates to 70/200 i.e., 35%) and Cool-go can be 30% or 33% at first glance as you advised. Now if I use a calculator, TripleClick would be ~31%. The numbers are too close and if I relied on approximation, I would have most likely marked the answer as True for a hypothetical statement: TripleClick has a higher profit margin than cool-go. So essentially I am trying to ask, how can I be certain as well as efficient while using estimations and approximations

Problem Solving Butler: March 2025
March 24	PS 1	PS 2

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PS 1
Along a yard 225 metres long , 26 trees are planted at equal distance, one tree being at each end of the yard. What is the distance between two consecutive trees?

A. 8
B. 8.6
C. 9
D. 9.6
E. 10

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PS 2

If five average workers in a workshop take 24 minutes to string 80 violins, how long will it take twelve average workers to string 720 violins?

A. 80 minutes
B. 90 minutes
C. 100 minutes
D. 120 minutes
E. 180 minutes

Critical Reasoning Butler: March 2025
March 24	CR 1	CR 2

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CR 1

The manager of BigShoppe, a company that lets customers purchase fresh fruits and vegetables online, suggests that customer orders be packed in extra-strong cartons to eliminate damage during transportation. Though these cartons are more expensive, overall costs would remain unaffected since the additional packaging cost is almost equal to the cost of refunding customers who received damaged fruits and vegetables.

Which of the following would it be most important to ascertain in determining whether implementing the manager’s proposal would have the argued-for effect on costs?

(A) Whether BigShoppe dispatchers habitually send out damaged fruits and vegetables to customers
(B) Whether the transportation companies used by BigShoppe will handle the new cartons carefully
(C) Whether the percentage of refunds that BigShoppe makes is higher than those seen by other online shopping companies
(D) Whether some customers are themselves responsible for the damage caused to the produce
(E) Whether fruits and vegetables are more vulnerable to incurring damage during shipping than are other fragile products.

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CR 2

American community colleges are entering an era that in some ways parallels the 1960s in terms of the need for new staff and their development of new skills to meet the challenges of the decade ahead. Increasingly, community college leaders are examining their future staffing needs, often with some startling results. For example, in California, approximately 40 percent of full-time faculty will be eligible for retirement in the next six years, with another 18 percent only a few years away. Obviously, the need to recruit and provide staff development for a substantial new cadre of faculty is upon us now.

If we assume the information in this passage is true, which of the following, if true, would strengthen the argument further?

A. Community colleges needed new staff in the 1960s.

B. Community college leaders are often startled by their future staffing needs.

C. There is a need to recruit and provide staff development for a new cadre of faculty.

D. All full-time faculty in California who become eligible for retirement will retire immediately.

E. The decade ahead will be challenging for American community colleges.

Data Sufficiency Butler: March 2025
March 24	DS 1	DS 2

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DS 1

A certain store sells a case of milk for x dollars. If the store purchases the milk for y dollars per gallon, how much per gallon does it profit on the milk that it sells?

(1) There are 24 one-gallon cartons of milk in one case

(2) x - 24y = 40

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DS 2

A retailer sells only radios and clocks. If there are currently exactly 42 total items in inventory, how many of them are radios?

(1) The retailer has more than 26 radios in inventory.

(2) The retailer has less than twice as many radios as clocks in inventory.

I lost the club’s discussion groups, namely VERBAL QUESTIONS OF THE DAY, QUANT QUESTIONS OF THE DAY, DI QUESTIONS OF THE DAY. does anyone have such problem. If not, please add me these groups or share the links.

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All these chats have been merged into this one, viz GMAT Questions Chat.

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Economist: A recent survey found that in countries with higher rates of internet censorship, there are also higher rates of internet usage per capita. This seems counterintuitive because one might expect that restrictions on internet content would deter usage.

Which of the following, if true and known by the residents of these countries, would best help explain the paradoxical results of the survey?

(A) Many residents in countries with higher internet censorship use the internet primarily for work-related purposes, which are not affected by censorship policies.

(B) Residents in countries with high internet censorship often use proxy servers and VPNs, which allow them to bypass restrictions and access a broader range of content online.

(C) There is an observed trend in the data collection methodology where internet usage metrics might include both direct and indirect engagement metrics, which vary significantly between surveyed regions.

(D) Countries with high rates of internet censorship often have higher populations, thus naturally leading to a higher total number of internet users.

(E) The survey included responses from a disproportionate number of young people, who tend to use the internet more frequently regardless of censorship levels.
can anyone tell me why not chose E, higher rates of internet usage per capita could be explained by tend to use the internet more frequently regardless of censorship levels(E)

Is the answer B? I got to it by eliminating the others. It won’t be E as all E says is that the survey had responses from more young people but these young people must be distributed uniformly through the censored and less censored nations. Not explaining the disparity between the per capita internet usage.

I will eliminate on the basis of we don’t know about young people and how data , had given to us so can you tell the young people were using more

B is correct, I think

B is correct, I think

Exactly

thanks dear

yes,b is correct

Disproportionate could mean 2 things either young people are more or less, hence I eliminated

If it said most of the people in survey are young then E might look good

thanks

A. Does not clarify higher usage per capita.
B. “Access a broader range” (high usage comparative to no censorship) “use proxy vpn” (no effect of censorship)
C. Out of scope. No relation.
D. Higher No. of user. Not relevant since we want clarification on usage per capita.
E. “More frequently” does not necessarily means “higher usage” (like 5 time 5 min a day vs 1 time 5 hour a day)

B is correct.

Best way to solve Paradox works for me is elimination method. Eliminate the out of scope. Take the choices as true,
F1 F2 (two contradicting facts given)
F3 (third fact resolves)

Impressed and quite surprised too on how more frequency doesn’t necessarily mean more usage, thanks for the insight