Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Apr 2610:00 AM EDT
-11:00 AM EDT
The Target Test Prep course represents a quantum leap forward in GMAT preparation, a radical reinterpretation of the way that students should study. Try before you buy with a 5-day, full-access trial of the course for FREE!
Apr 2711:00 AM EDT
-12:00 PM EDT
Prefer video-based learning? The Target Test Prep OnDemand course is a one-of-a-kind video masterclass featuring 400 hours of lecture-style teaching by Scott Woodbury-Stewart, founder of Target Test Prep and one of the most accomplished GMAT instructors
Apr 2808:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Whether you are just beginning your MBA journey or fine-tuning your path to a 700+ score, GMAT Day is designed to give you a competitive edge.
24 Mar 2021, 01:30
Kudos
Bookmarks
A
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
95%
(hard)
Question Stats:
39% (02:08) correct
61%
(02:07)
wrong
based on 317
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
A new private college offers a course which prepares students for a career in which only 7% of the professionals are successful financially in the related industry. In a radio commercial, the course is presented as a guarantee to financial success based on that career. Clearly, such a guarantee warrants charges of false advertising.
The answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the argument?
(A) Is the percentage of professionals that did not take part in the course in the new private college lower than 93%?
(B) Did any of the professionals included in the 7% not graduate from the course?
(C) Did more than 50% of the professionals graduate from a similar course offered by another college?
(D) How many students does the college accept into a single course?
(E) What percentage of professionals have participated in a course that trains for this specific career?
The answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the argument?
(A) Is the percentage of professionals that did not take part in the course in the new private college lower than 93%?
(B) Did any of the professionals included in the 7% not graduate from the course?
(C) Did more than 50% of the professionals graduate from a similar course offered by another college?
(D) How many students does the college accept into a single course?
(E) What percentage of professionals have participated in a course that trains for this specific career?
25 Mar 2021, 01:15
Kudos
Bookmarks
Official Explanation
A new private college offers a course which prepares students for a career in which only 7% of the professionals are successful financially in the related industry. In a radio commercial, the course is presented as a guarantee to financial success based on that career. Clearly, such a guarantee warrants charges of false advertising.
The answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the argument?
(A) Is the percentage of professionals that did not take part in the course in the new private college lower than 93%?
To solve this Investigation question, first break down the argument. The first two sentences provide facts and are hence premises. The last sentence uses the conclusion word clearly and is, therefore, the argument's conclusion:
- Premise A: a new college prepares students for a career in which only 7% of the professionals are successful financially
+
Premise B: a radio commercial says that the course guarantees financial success
=
Conclusion: the claim in the radio station must be misleading
Vital factor: ?
You are required to find the factor which is most crucial to the evaluation of the author's conclusion. The correct answer is a question which could support or weaken the conclusion depeneding on its answer.
While this answer choice does not entirely invalidate the conclusion, it may validate the conclusion and therefore is the most valuable out of the five answer choices.
This answer choice can be translated to "Did more than 7% of professionals take the course in the private college?". If more than 7% took the course, and only 7% of professionals are financially successful, then the course's promise for financial success to all students is indeed false advertisement.
(B) Did any of the professionals included in the 7% not graduate from the course?
Incorrect.
To solve this Investigation question, first break down the argument. The first two sentences provide facts and are hence premises. The last sentence uses the conclusion word clearly and is, therefore, the argument's conclusion:
- Premise A: a new college prepares students for a career in which only 7% of the professionals are successful financially
+
Premise B: a radio commercial says that the course guarantees financial success
=
Conclusion: the claim in the radio station must be misleading
Vital factor: ?
You are required to find the factor which is most crucial to the evaluation of the author's conclusion. The correct answer is a question which could support or weaken the conclusion depeneding on its answer.
This answer choice would not really affect anything. In and of itself, the fact that some successful professionals did not graduate from the said course says nothing about the people who will take it or the course's ability to guarantee success.
(C) Did more than 50% of the professionals graduate from a similar course offered by another college?
Incorrect.
Answering the question about a similar course in this answer choice wouldn't help us determine anything about the commercials claim. The argument focuses on a guarantee made regarding a specific course by a specific college.
(D) How many students does the college accept into a single course?
Incorrect.
This question is irrelevant because it begins with how many rather than relating to percents. Since the argument deals with percentages, actual numerical figures would not be helpful to us because we couldn't determine what part of the professional population is made up of course alumni. Plug in 50, 500, 5000, or 5 million - we still don't know the size of the industry so we cannot compare.
(E) What percentage of professionals have participated in a course that trains for this specific career?
Incorrect.
This question would not reveal anything about the commercial's accuracy because the college's claim is neither weakened nor strengthened by the success or prevalence of other courses.
General Discussion
24 Mar 2021, 04:04
Kudos
Bookmarks
A new private college offers a course which prepares students for a career in which only 7% of the professionals are successful financially in the related industry. In a radio commercial, the course is presented as a guarantee to financial success based on that career. Clearly, such a guarantee warrants charges of false advertising.
The answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the argument?
(A) Is the percentage of professionals that did not take part in the course in the new private college lower than 93%?
- As these are established professionals and the course is new, it wouldn't make sense to relate these two data. Eliminate
(B) Did any of the professionals included in the 7% not graduate from the course?
- Well even if some of them did, the rest could have not taken the course and still are financially successful, so I think it is irrelevant to evaluate the claim of the guarantee that the course is claiming. Irrelevant
(C) Did more than 50% of the professionals graduate from a similar course offered by another college?
- We do not care about the graduates who graduated from a similar course as we want to evaluate this particular courses claims. Irrelevant
(D) How many students does the college accept into a single course?
- The number of students accepted is not relevant to our argument. Irrelevant
(E) What percentage of professionals have participated in a course that trains for this specific career?
- I am selecting this option on basis of POE
IMO E
The answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the argument?
(A) Is the percentage of professionals that did not take part in the course in the new private college lower than 93%?
- As these are established professionals and the course is new, it wouldn't make sense to relate these two data. Eliminate
(B) Did any of the professionals included in the 7% not graduate from the course?
- Well even if some of them did, the rest could have not taken the course and still are financially successful, so I think it is irrelevant to evaluate the claim of the guarantee that the course is claiming. Irrelevant
(C) Did more than 50% of the professionals graduate from a similar course offered by another college?
- We do not care about the graduates who graduated from a similar course as we want to evaluate this particular courses claims. Irrelevant
(D) How many students does the college accept into a single course?
- The number of students accepted is not relevant to our argument. Irrelevant
(E) What percentage of professionals have participated in a course that trains for this specific career?
- I am selecting this option on basis of POE
IMO E
