For some women the cost of giving birth can be an unexpectedly large b

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For some women the cost of giving birth can be an unexpectedly large burden. The average normal birth now costs $3,200, and a birth with complications can cost thousands of dollars more. Of women in the primary childbearing age range of eighteen to twenty-four, who account for about 40 percent of all births in this country annually, more than 25 percent have no health-care insurance to pay maternity costs.

If the statements above are true, which of the following must also be true?

(A) Each year, about 75 percent of all births in this country are to women who have health-care coverage of maternity costs. 
(B) Each year, about 60 percent of all births in this country are to women who are younger than eighteen or older than twenty-four. 
(C) For an average birth, health-care insurance pays about 75 percent of $3,200. 
(D) In this country, about 75 percent of the women who do not have health-care coverage of maternity costs are younger than eighteen or older than twenty-four
(E) In this country, nearly 75 percent of the women in the primary childbearing age range give birth with no complications.

rishinric · Answer

IMO B is the right answer.....
25 % of 40 is 10.
So only 10 % of total is not having insurance.

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Chanchal2809 · Answer

Can You Please Give me Explanation?

BrightOutlookJenn · Answer

Hi  Chanchal2809

I'll give you an explanation for this question. However, my advice for your future practice is to focus on Verbal questions from Official sources. This one is tagged as "other" and thus the quality could be sub-par. (This prompt has some issues, suggesting that the burden of the costs of childbirth fall on women alone ... and that ages 18-24 are the prime childbearing years. Yikes. These are clear signs that it's not an official question, but we can still learn from the structure of the task and the credited answer.)

When GMAT asks you for which of the following statements MUST be true, the test writers are asking you to draw a conclusion based solidly on the information provided. For these questions, do not assume anything. Use only the information explicitly stated in the prompt.

So we are looking for which of the answer choices we can solidly PROVE based on the prompt. Not something that is maybe true, but something that is FOR SURE true because it follows logically from the information given.

The prompt tells us that women in the primary childbearing age range of eighteen to twenty-four account for about 40 percent of all births in this country annually. So it must be true that the rest of the births, about 60 percent of all births, are to women who fall outside this 18-24 age range. This is why answer choice B is correct.

We can't prove any of the other answer choices, based on the information given.

Does this help? Please let us know.

Best, Jennifer

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