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The Housing law prohibits businesses from reimbursing any employees for the cost of owning and renting a luxurious apartment that is used for business purposes. Thus, many Canadian companies themselves purchase luxurious apartments. The vast majority of the business housing colonies are owned by small and mid-size businesses, and accommodations are strictly for business purposes, with mostly mid-level employees on board. These companies and their boards of directors are in full compliance with the law and with what is best for their businesses.

Which of the following can be most properly inferred from the statements above?


A. The Housing law of 1989 in question costs businesses money.
B. Most executives would rather use company owned luxurious apartments than use commercial luxury apartments.
C. Large businesses usually have their executives stay in semi-luxurious or ordinary commercial apartments.
D. Upper level executives are less often in compliance with the law.
E. By not receiving any reimbursement for these luxurious apartments, the mid-level executives on board are complying with the law.


Situation:According to the statements, the companies that own luxurious apartments for business use are fully in compliance with the relevant law, which is summarized. A correct inference must follow from the premises given and must be true as per the stimulus.
    Choice A :
  1. It does not have to be true that the law costs the businesses money, as no evidence about the relative costs is given and the law in specific is nowhere mentioned
  2. Choice B : This choice is an irrelevant comparison, as the preferences of the executives are not the concern of the statements.
  3. Choice C : This choice does not have to follow, as there is no information given about the housing arrangements made by large companies. The statements only indicate that the majority of luxurious apartments are not owned by large companies.
  4. Choice D : There is no information given about the housing arrangements of upper level executives and no reason to believe that those with the companies discussed do not comply with their companies’
  5. Choice E : Correct. If, as the statements indicate, the companies are in full compliance with this law, it must be true that the executives following their guidelines also are.

Answer: E


I think the answer E is correct in terms of logic but the wording modifies the mid level executives as receiving the reimbursements, sounds incorrect to me.
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I think this is a high-quality question.
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Option E was on my shortlist but the reason why I did not choose it was that according to the premise, the housing law requires compliance to be done by businesses. "The Housing law prohibits businesses from reimbursing any employees for the cost of owning and renting a luxurious apartment that is used for business purposes." The law is prohibiting businesses, therefore, if the reimbursement is not happening then it would be more ideal to say that the "businesses" are in compliance rather than to say "executives" are in compliance.

Although I couldn't find many reasons to choose any of A-D, I still think that the E is poorly worded and since it is an inference question, the option needs to be 100% inferable.

If you know a better way to justify E, please help me out!
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I couldn't understand the paragraph. How does the Housing law force companies to purchase luxury apartments by making it illegal to reimburse their employees' costs? Doesn't make any sense to me. Some help please
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they change employees to executives which messed me up. the question makes no mention of executives at all.
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I think this is a poor-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate.
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I think this is a poor-quality question and I agree with explanation.
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I agree. I don't understand this question either and excluding it from the question bank.
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