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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives Updated on: 01 Jan 2020, 03:53
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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives at the company graduated from Blesston College, and every Blesston graduate is female.

Each of the following must be true on the basis of the statements above EXCEPT?


(A) Every Merge Company executive is female.

(B) Most Blesston graduates are not accountants.

(C) There are no male executives at Merge Company.

(D) Some Blesston College graduates are not accountants.

(E) Some females are not accountants.


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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives 19 Jun 2017, 14:47
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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives at the company graduated from Blesston College, and every Blesston graduate is female.

Each of the following must be true on the basis of the statements above EXCEPT?
(A) Every Merge Company executive is female.
(B) Most Blesston graduates are not accountants.
(C) There are no male executives at Merge Company.
(D) Some Blesston College graduates are not accountants.
(E) Some females are not accountants.

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Dear csaluja,

I'm happy to respond. :-)

My friend, Powerscore gives fabulous preparation for the LSAT. This question here looks a lot like an LSAT Logical Reasoning question, but it doesn't really resemble the format of a GMAT Critical Reasoning question.

I have the Powerscore GMAT & LSAT books and I can't find this question. To me, it seems that the slam-dunk answer is (A).
Given: If someone is an executive at Merge company, that person graduated from Blesston College.
Given: If someone graduated from Blesston College, that person is a female.
The statements (If P, then Q) and (If Q, then R) combine to yield (If P, then R).
Conclusion: If someone is an executive at Merge company, that person is a female.
Or, in other words:
Every Merge Company executive is female.

I would say that the OA clearly is (A), but you have the answer (B) listed. Did you copy this correctly from the source? Do you actually know the source, including page number, in the print book?

Mike :-)
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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives 19 Jun 2017, 14:51
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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives at the company graduated from Blesston College, and every Blesston graduate is female.

Each of the following must be true on the basis of the statements above EXCEPT?
(A) Every Merge Company executive is female.
(B) Most Blesston graduates are not accountants.
(C) There are no male executives at Merge Company.
(D) Some Blesston College graduates are not accountants.
(E) Some females are not accountants.

Source- Powerscore Bible

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Dear csaluja,

I'm happy to respond. :-)

My friend, Powerscore gives fabulous preparation for the LSAT. This question here looks a lot like an LSAT Logical Reasoning question, but it doesn't really resemble the format of a GMAT Critical Reasoning question.

I have the Powerscore GMAT & LSAT books and I can't find this question. To me, it seems that the slam-dunk answer is (A).
Given: If someone is an executive at Merge company, that person graduated from Blesston College.
Given: If someone graduated from Blesston College, that person is a female.
The statements (If P, then Q) and (If Q, then R) combine to yield (If P, then R).
Conclusion: If someone is an executive at Merge company, that person is a female.
Or, in other words:
Every Merge Company executive is female.

I would say that the OA clearly is (A), but you have the answer (B) listed. Did you copy this correctly from the source? Do you actually know the source, including page number, in the print book?

Mike :-)
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Hey Mike,

It says which ones are true EXCEPT :) Maybe you missed that.
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Hey Mike,

It says which ones are true EXCEPT :) Maybe you missed that.
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Dear akshayk,

Thank you, my friend. I was so concerned with looking for the source of this question that I did miss that.

We want to find the one that isn't true.

So, since every Merge Company executive is female, we know (A) is true. That can't be the answer.
We also know that "There are no male executives at Merge Company." We know that (C) is true, so that can't be the answer.

No accountant is an executive--there's no overlap between these two groups. That's big.

We know some Blesston College graduates are executives, so they are not accountants. We know (D) is true, so that can't be the answer.
We know that some females are executives, so they are not accountants either. We know (E) is true, so that can't be the answer.

All four of those must be true. The only one that doesn't have to be true is (B)--we actually have no way to decide on the truth value of (B).

Thus, (B) is the answer to the EXCEPT question. Again, this has the feel of an LSAT LR questions, but not of a GMAT CR question.

Does all this make sense?
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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives 19 Jun 2017, 16:52
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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives at the company graduated from Blesston College, and every Blesston graduate is female.

Each of the following must be true on the basis of the statements above EXCEPT?
(A) Every Merge Company executive is female.
(B) Most Blesston graduates are not accountants.
(C) There are no male executives at Merge Company.
(D) Some Blesston College graduates are not accountants.
(E) Some females are not accountants.

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Dear csaluja,

I'm happy to respond. :-)

My friend, Powerscore gives fabulous preparation for the LSAT. This question here looks a lot like an LSAT Logical Reasoning question, but it doesn't really resemble the format of a GMAT Critical Reasoning question.

I have the Powerscore GMAT & LSAT books and I can't find this question. To me, it seems that the slam-dunk answer is (A).
Given: If someone is an executive at Merge company, that person graduated from Blesston College.
Given: If someone graduated from Blesston College, that person is a female.
The statements (If P, then Q) and (If Q, then R) combine to yield (If P, then R).
Conclusion: If someone is an executive at Merge company, that person is a female.
Or, in other words:
Every Merge Company executive is female.

I would say that the OA clearly is (A), but you have the answer (B) listed. Did you copy this correctly from the source? Do you actually know the source, including page number, in the print book?

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Hi Mike,

The source is PowerScore GMAT Critical Reasoning Bible 2015 Edition. This question is listed on Page 28.
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I'm usually fast at these types of quant-related CR, but when it comes to a typical CR question, its lengthy and wordy stimulus just confuse me. Quite sad that these types are not GMAT-like, but rather LSAT questions. But that's okay, when we join a game, just accept its rules.
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Hello nightblade354, I hope this tagging attempt reaches your inbox, could you please kindly advise on the above?

This is the first question from the CR Bible it didn't really get into the detail of what's what...

Also - am I right in presuming that there are no conclusions in this one? Just facts?

My key issue is the options D & E -- literally no idea why they are any more true than B...

Thanks :)
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Hello nightblade354, I hope this tagging attempt reaches your inbox, could you please kindly advise on the above?

This is the first question from the CR Bible it didn't really get into the detail of what's what...

Also - am I right in presuming that there are no conclusions in this one? Just facts?

My key issue is the options D & E -- literally no idea why they are any more true than B...

Thanks :)
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No accountant at Merge Company is an executive, but all the executives at the company graduated from Blesston College, and every Blesston graduate is female.

Logic: Accountant --> Executive

Executive --> Accountant
Executive --> Blesston --> Female

Combined:


Each of the following must be true on the basis of the statements above EXCEPT?

(A) Every Merge Company executive is female. -- Translation: Executive --> Female; Seems good.

(B) Most Blesston graduates are not accountants. Translation: Blesston --> Accountant; we have no idea about the populous of the graduates of the school. So this has to be wrong.

(C) There are no male executives at Merge Company. Translation: Company --> Male Executive; Correct, per the above, as we can see: Female --> Executive

(D) Some Blesston College graduates are not accountants. Translation: Blesston --> Accountant ; this is still good, per the above. We are told that to be an executive, you have to be a non accountant, from Blesston, and female. Therefore, we know that this holds true.

(E) Some females are not accountants. Translation: Female --> Accountant ; Same as (D).
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