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The daily journey from his home to his office takes John Bond on average an hour and thirty-five minutes by car. A friends has told him of a different route that is longer in mileage, but will only take an hour and quarter on average, because it contains stretches of roads where it is possible to drive at higher speed.

John Bond's only consideration apart from the time factor is the cost, and he calculates that his car will consume 10% less gasoline if he takes the suggested new route. John decides to take the new route for the next two weeks as an experiment.

If the above were the only other considerations, which one of the following may have an effect on the decision John has made?


(A) Major road work is begun on the shorter (in distance) route, which holds up traffic for an extra ten minutes. The project will take six months, but after it, the improvements will allow the journey to be made in half an hour less than at present.

(B) There is to be a strike at local gas stations and the amount of gasoline drivers may purchase maybe rationed.

(C) John finds a third route which is slightly longer than his old route, but shorter than the suggested route.

(D) The old route passes the door of a work colleague, who with out a ride, would have to go to work by bus.

(E) None of the above.
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IMO E.
what if the third route mentioned in option C has more traffic or it takes more gasoline to travel from this third route.

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I don't understand how this is a strengthen question. Could you please elaborate ? And if so, then how is B not strengthening one decision from John ?
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I don't understand how this is a strengthen question. Could you please elaborate ? And if so, then how is B not strengthening one decision from John ?
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Hi,

In short, John only cares about saving time and money when choosing a journey to work. He has found a new route that would take shorter (saves time), and John also estimates the new route will save on fuel (saves money). John has decided to try out the new route for the next two weeks. We are asked which of the below options would have an effect on this decision:


The daily journey from his home to his office takes John Bond on average an hour and thirty-five minutes by car. A friends has told him of a different route that is longer in mileage, but will only take an hour and quarter on average, because it contains stretches of roads where it is possible to drive at higher speed.

John Bond's only consideration apart from the time factor is the cost, and he calculates that his car will consume 10% less gasoline if he takes the suggested new route.

--> So the new route is a good option because John's considerations are time and money, and the new route is faster and cheaper.

John decides to take the new route for the next two weeks as an experiment.
If the above were the only other considerations, which one of the following may have an effect on the decision John has made?

--> Note that the decision of the question is to "take the new route for the next two weeks as an experiment".

(A) Major road work is begun on the shorter (in distance) route, which holds up traffic for an extra ten minutes. The project will take six months, but after it, the improvements will allow the journey to be made in half an hour less than at present. No, the new road will be available in six months, and John has made a decision about the next two weeks.

(B) There is to be a strike at local gas stations and the amount of gasoline drivers may purchase maybe rationed. I do not think that rationing the gas available to drivers affects the attractiveness of the new route vs the current route.

(C) John finds a third route which is slightly longer than his old route, but shorter than the suggested route. YES. This third route is shorter than the new option he is about to test. It is longer than his current route (but so is the other one). If this third route is as fuel-efficient as the option he is about to test, and if it also has stretches where he can drive faster and save time compared to his current route, then this third route would be a better option than the one he is about to test. This in turn affects his decision of testing the route #2, because he would test route #3 instead.

(D) The old route passes the door of a work colleague, who with out a ride, would have to go to work by bus.We don't know if the colleague pays for part of the trip, so not very relevant...



(E) None of the above.
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It shall be e not c ,what is source of ques

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Why cannot (A) be the correct answer, though “the new road will be available in six months, and John has made a decision about the next two weeks.”, but in the next two week, the shorter route will indeed “holds up traffic for an extra ten minutes”,’doesn’t this also be a factor John has to consider???
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(B) There is to be a strike at local gas stations and the amount of gasoline drivers may purchase maybe rationed.-
This will NOT have any effect on the decision of john because the new route he has taken to experiment for 2 weeks is already consuming less time and less gas as the mileage is more on the new route ,so "strike at gas station" will be a common factor in both the scenarios but will be a beneficial factor for john as it consumes less gas (less cost factor ) on the new route.
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The daily journey from his home to his office takes John Bond on average an hour and thirty-five minutes by car. A friends has told him of a different route that is longer in mileage, but will only take an hour and quarter on average, because it contains stretches of roads where it is possible to drive at higher speed.

John Bond's only consideration apart from the time factor is the cost, and he calculates that his car will consume 10% less gasoline if he takes the suggested new route. John decides to take the new route for the next two weeks as an experiment.

If the above were the only other considerations, which one of the following may have an effect on the decision John has made?


(A) Major road work is begun on the shorter (in distance) route, which holds up traffic for an extra ten minutes. The project will take six months, but after it, the improvements will allow the journey to be made in half an hour less than at present.

(B) There is to be a strike at local gas stations and the amount of gasoline drivers may purchase maybe rationed.

(C) John finds a third route which is slightly longer than his old route, but shorter than the suggested route.

(D) The old route passes the door of a work colleague, who with out a ride, would have to go to work by bus.

(E) None of the above.
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Good question. Tricky verbiage.

(A) The decision that he made is to test the new route for 2 weeks. 6 months from now is irrelevant.
(B) A drop in the supply of gasoline would support John's decision and NOT impact it. Also, does not convey any new information regarding the price of gasoline.
(C) The third route MAY have longer stretches than the suggested route; therefore, John may be able to save time and/or money. Correct.
(D) Only concerned with time and/or money. Irrelevant.
(E) Trap answer
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The daily journey from his home to his office takes John Bond on average an hour and thirty-five minutes by car. A friends has told him of a different route that is longer in mileage, but will only take an hour and quarter on average, because it contains stretches of roads where it is possible to drive at higher speed.

John Bond's only consideration apart from the time factor is the cost, and he calculates that his car will consume 10% less gasoline if he takes the suggested new route. John decides to take the new route for the next two weeks as an experiment.

If the above were the only other considerations, which one of the following may have an effect on the decision John has made?
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(A) Major road work is begun on the shorter (in distance) route, which holds up traffic for an extra ten minutes. The project will take six months, but after it, the improvements will allow the journey to be made in half an hour less than at present.
The suggested route change is happening for 2 weeks which is within the range of six months after which john can decide therefore out

(B) There is to be a strike at local gas stations and the amount of gasoline drivers may purchase maybe rationed.
If the gasoline supply is to be reduced he's gonna stick to the second route therefore out

(C) John finds a third route which is slightly longer than his old route, but shorter than the suggested route.
If we apply a similar line of reasoning we can argue he might change therefore let us hang on to it

(D) The old route passes the door of a work colleague, who with out a ride, would have to go to work by bus.
John is not considering any other factor therefore out

THerefore IMO C
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I don't understand how this is a strengthen question. Could you please elaborate ? And if so, then how is B not strengthening one decision from John ?

Hi,

In short, John only cares about saving time and money when choosing a journey to work. He has found a new route that would take shorter (saves time), and John also estimates the new route will save on fuel (saves money). John has decided to try out the new route for the next two weeks. We are asked which of the below options would have an effect on this decision:


The daily journey from his home to his office takes John Bond on average an hour and thirty-five minutes by car. A friends has told him of a different route that is longer in mileage, but will only take an hour and quarter on average, because it contains stretches of roads where it is possible to drive at higher speed.

John Bond's only consideration apart from the time factor is the cost, and he calculates that his car will consume 10% less gasoline if he takes the suggested new route.

--> So the new route is a good option because John's considerations are time and money, and the new route is faster and cheaper.

John decides to take the new route for the next two weeks as an experiment.
If the above were the only other considerations, which one of the following may have an effect on the decision John has made?

--> Note that the decision of the question is to "take the new route for the next two weeks as an experiment".

(A) Major road work is begun on the shorter (in distance) route, which holds up traffic for an extra ten minutes. The project will take six months, but after it, the improvements will allow the journey to be made in half an hour less than at present. No, the new road will be available in six months, and John has made a decision about the next two weeks.

(B) There is to be a strike at local gas stations and the amount of gasoline drivers may purchase maybe rationed. I do not think that rationing the gas available to drivers affects the attractiveness of the new route vs the current route.

(C) John finds a third route which is slightly longer than his old route, but shorter than the suggested route. YES. This third route is shorter than the new option he is about to test. It is longer than his current route (but so is the other one). If this third route is as fuel-efficient as the option he is about to test, and if it also has stretches where he can drive faster and save time compared to his current route, then this third route would be a better option than the one he is about to test. This in turn affects his decision of testing the route #2, because he would test route #3 instead.

(D) The old route passes the door of a work colleague, who with out a ride, would have to go to work by bus.We don't know if the colleague pays for part of the trip, so not very relevant...



(E) None of the above.
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hi

in your explanation itself you used two ifs, which shows how far fetched this options i mean it requires two assumptions. we dont know that the longer road is short and save fuel.
if you can go this far for C why not for D? one assumption he will stop for his colleague ?
and when you have none of the above why go for assumptions to strengthen the aurgument?

please help me where my reasoning is wrong?

thanks
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