A local department store hires college students for one month every

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A local department store hires college students for one month every spring to audit its unsold inventory. It costs the department store 20 percent less to pay wages to students than it would cost to hire outside auditors from a temporary service. Even after factoring in the costs of training and insuring the students against work-related injury, the department store spends less money by hiring the student auditors than it would by hiring auditors from the temporary service.

The statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?

(A) The amount spent on insurance for college-student auditors is more than 20 percent of the cost of paying the college students' basic wages.

(B) It takes 20 percent less time for the college students to audit the unsold inventory than it does for the outside auditors.

(C) The department store pays its college-student auditors 20 percent less than the temporary service pays its auditors.

(D) By hiring college students, the department store will cause 20 percent of the auditors at the temporary service to lose their jobs.

(E) The cost of training its own college-student auditors is less than 20 percent of the cost of hiring auditors from the temporary service.

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pudu · Answer

(B) It takes 20 percent less time for the college students to audit the unsold inventory than it does for the outside auditors.

Because this indicates that they required less time than temporary auditors. This time difference can absorb their training and other cost along with their wages compared to temporary auditors

Solenja · Answer

could you please explain why'd you eliminate option D?

belanieshaan · Answer

Solenja  we will eliminate D because it's not relevant to the question asked. Temporary service auditors losing jobs will not be a valid assertion regarding the paragraph

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pudu · Answer

BUNEL how it is E? in that there is no mention about their salary and insurance...please help me to understand it

belanieshaan · Answer

The question is asking to find an assertion which is best supported by the arguments given in the para . The 3 line in the paragraph clearly states about the cost effectiveness of hiring college student as auditors. Later line of the paragraph presnt points to strengthen that argument. Hence E will be the perfect assertion which is supported by the arguments given in the passage

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Bunuel · Answer

KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

We don't have to look too deeply into this one to determine that it falls squarely into the numbers and statistics realm. All we have is evidence, and the first piece presents a statistical claim: The department store pays college students 20 percent less than it would pay employees from a temporary service. Next comes the numerical claim: Add the costs of training and insurance, and the store still pays less for college students. The correct answer must arise from the facts: college students cost the store up to 20 percent less than do employees from a temporary service—even after training and insurance. Prephrasing an answer would be tough, so we should move right to testing the choices.

An 800 test taker has an intuitive sense of when to try to prephrase answers and when to simply use a solid understanding of the given information to test the choices. In either case, he attacks the choices aggressively.

(A) attempts to relate the amount spent on insurance for student auditors to the total amount of their wages, but we have no basis for which to make this comparison. The amount spent on insurance for college-student auditors can be more, less, or equal to 20 percent of their basic wages without violating the numerical facts presented.

(B) and (D) should have been fairly easy kills. (B) involves time, a subject not included in the stimulus, while (D) mentions the loss of jobs at the temporary service, even though we know nothing about the overall demand for their auditors.

(С) is a little more subtle, but it involves how much the temporary service pays its auditors, not how much it charges the store for them. A classic "scope shift," in fact—and a pretty good premonition of things to come.

An 800 test taker always pays attention to the scope of the argument; this helps him to axe easy and more difficult choices alike.

(E) fits, and one way we can verify that it's correct is to see what happens it it's not true. If the cost of training college students is more than 20 percent of the cost of hiring auditors from the temporary service, the overall cost of college students must be higher than the cost of temporary-service auditors. That would contradict the stimulus, so (E) must be true.

An 800 test taker has many tricks up her sleeve. She knows that one way to verify an answer in an Assumption or Inference question is to see what happens when she denies or negates the choice. If doing so makes the argument fall apart, then she knows she's found the winner.

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