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A combination of anxiety and external pressure leads to nausea. All the auditioners for the new reality show  Wanna Be’s  suffer from external pressure. Some of the auditioners feel anxiety about performing well for the producers, but others do not feel anxious. The producers of  Wanna Be’s  like to choose contestants who feel anxiety.

Which of the following conclusions is most strongly supported by the passage above?

A. The auditions for  Wanna Be’s  cause more performers to feel external pressure than do auditions for other shows.

B. Most of the people who audition become contestants on  Wanna Be’s.

C. There is more nausea among auditioners for  Wanna Be’s  than among producers of  Wanna Be’s.

D. No auditioner who doesn’t feel anxiety has nausea.

E. Most of the auditioners for  Wanna Be’s  who become contestants have nausea.

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

IMO the right answer here is  E . With inference questions it is essential to remember that you want a conclusion that must 100% be true. This is much easier to identify by eliminating the answers that can be false, since the right answer cannot.

A  - We see that all the auditioners for Wanna Be have external pressure. But it is unclear whether the show caused this, as well as whether other shows cause less external pressure.  OUT

B  - We have not been told what the success rate of auditions is or anything relevant to that topic.  OUT

C  - This has a very similar comparison trap to the one in A. There is certainly a fair bit of nausea for auditioners, and it may well be more than that of the producers. But we don't know this for sure, it could very much be the other way.  OUT

D  - This is a pretty tempting choice. We know that if one has anxiety and external pressure, they will have nausea for sure. It seems to lead from that that if someone doesn't have anxiety, they would not feel nauseated. But we don't know this. We just know that if both conditions are met, nausea is guaranteed. It could also happen that someone gets nauseated with just one of the conditions, or none. Hence this answer is  OUT .

E  - This MUST be true based off the premises. We know everyone has external pressure. We also know that some of the contests have anxiety, and that the producers prefer people with anxiety. Therefore, it must stand to reason that the auditioners with anxiety & external pressure are going to be the ones who get picked, leading to most contestants having nausea. This answer is therefore  CORRECT .

- Matoo

anupam87 · Answer

Can some one provide a better explanation for this question. I am not 100% sure why D is wrong.

The prompt says that some has anxiety, this could be any number from 1 to 100 (lets assume contestant is 100). Now the producers like to choose contestants with Anxiety, so they can chose 1 to 100 of the auditioners. Lets say that there is only 1 contestant with anxiety, will E still holds true in that scenario?

PyjamaScientist · Answer

anupam87  to understand why D is wrong, consider this example:
 If you trouble your teacher, you will be punished. 
So, can you say, that if you do not trouble your teacher, you will not be punished? No! Right. You might get punished for some other reason unrelated to troubling the teacher. Similarly, stimulus says, A combination of  anxiety  and external pressure leads to  nausea , can you say that only these are the two reasons for someone getting a  nausea ? No. Why? Because there might be some other reasons and the stimulus does  not state that the  combination of anxiety and external pressure   is the  only  cause of  nausea , so, you can not say that if someone didn't feel anxious, they DID NOT have  nausea . Maybe some of them felt  nausea  due to  extreme air conditioning  inside the studio, or what if too  many bright lights  caused  nausea   in some participants. There can be other reasons too.
Basic concept to be learned from here is: If A causes B, you can say that Not B implies Not A. It only says, that A implies B. But, if the stimulus said, "only"  combination of anxiety and external pressure  cause nausea, then this statement would have been plausible.

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