Felipe is organizing a meeting that several staff will attend at the

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Felipe is organizing a meeting that several staff will attend at the office and several others will attend remotely via teleconference. He would prefer to schedule the meeting earlier in the week, but needs to consider other factors as well. The table lists all of the available rooms and all of the features Felipe needs to consider in choosing a room. All of the available rooms at the office are equipped for voice-only teleconferencing, but only some are equipped for video conferencing. Based on the available information, Felipe has concluded that:
 
 his first preference is Room 1, second is Room 6, and third is Room 2 
 he cannot use Rooms 4 and 5

Room    Max occupancy    Projector?    Video conferencing?    Availability this week     1  12  yes  yes  Thursday    2  12  yes  no  Wednesday    3  20  yes  no  Tuesday    4  8  no  no  Monday    5  8  yes  yes  Tuesday    6  20  yes  yes  Friday   
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Based on the information provided, for each of the following statements, select  Yes  if the statement would, if true, help explain at least one of Felipe's conclusions. Otherwise, select  No .

hritik_jain · Accepted Answer

What if he is planning on hosting atleast 9 people instead of 10?

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chetan2u · Answer

hritik_jain  and  jeet1204

We are looking at if the option is able to justify certain details of the table. You have to assume the information to be true and see if it helps in explaining at least one of Felipe's conclusions.
So, if he is planning to host at least 10 persons, then he discarding rooms with max occupancy of 8 people is justified.

You are mistaking it with finding whether the option can be derived from the table.

chetan2u · Answer

GMAT Focus Simple yet Tricky question.

egmat · Answer

Such a brilliant question that looks easy because of the everyday context it uses and because of the simple table. But it is in fact fairly complex with not one but two layers of complexity.

Layer 1  – Dataset presents multiple criteria and the decisions that Felipe took. 
  Layer 2  – The complex question statement! We need to find if the additional criterion presented in the statement helps explain any of the conclusions arrived at in the dataset. If it does, then the answer for that statement is YES. If it does not explain any of the conclusions, then the answer for that statement is NO.

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gupta00abhishek00 · Answer

How is statement 2 explaining atleast 1 conclusion?
Although the statement helps in justification for the selection of R2 over R5, it neither explains the reason for preference of R1 > R6 > R2, nor it explains the reason for rejection of R4 and R5.
Could you please explain this point? egmat

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Ankit__7182 · Answer

chetan2u

Felipe has concluded that:
 
 his first preference is Room 1, second is Room 6, and third is Room 2  
I think the third preference should be Room 3 instead of Room 2. Though it was not required in the question but still it defies "preference" logic used.

chetan2u · Answer

Normally, I would go for what you have told. But since the preference is room 2 over room 3, and we are to find a logic for that preference, my take would be -

What can we say about the strength of people attending?
It would surely be  more than 8 and at the most 12  ( reason why room 1 is first preference).

Preferences : He surely would prefer a VC and Projector, and  2 and 3 have the same status .

Difference :
1. The difference is room 2 has 12 and room 3 has a max capacity of 20. Now, we know he expects at the most 12,  so would a room with larger capacity than what is required preferable . If there is no Video Conferencing, he may want the best possible use of tele conferencing and  smaller room may be a better choice. 
2. Availabilty of room 2 on a later day. It is mentioned that he prefers the conference   earlier in the week  . Note he is not looking for the   earliest in week  .  Maybe both Tuesday and Wednesday would fit in when we speak of earlier in the week.

jeet1204 · Answer

Yeah exactly, not sure why it cannot be 9. No one here has addressed it.

rredtfeldt · Answer

Oh! Yes. Thank you. “If the statement is true would it help explain his choices”- ✅

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Kabiranand · Answer

Thanks for the video.

For statement 3, I marked "No". Reason being- what if he wants to book a room for 9 people? In that case too he would reject 4 and 5, and choose 1,2 or 6. Please let me know where am I going wrong?

Thanks.

Kabiranand · Answer

Thanks for the video.

For statement 3, I marked "No". Reason being- what if he wants to book a room for 9 people? In that case too he would reject 4 and 5, and choose 1,2 or 6. Please let me know where am I going wrong?

Thanks.

pakko · Answer

For all those who think the third option is 'no', because the least number could be 9 as well, let me break it down for you. I made the mistake too.
Look at the last statement - a.k.a the main question:
  '  Based on the information provided, for each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement would, if true, help explain at least one of Felipe's conclusions. Otherwise, select No'   
 So you have to first assume that the statement 3 is True. And then you look at the table. Even if the statement was at least 9, 11 or 12 people, the statement would still explain his reason to not select an 8-person room. 
 Hence, the answer is 'yes'

lawyeroffduty · Answer

the answer will be still yes because then he can't choose room 4 and 5, and in the question stem it's clearly mentioned that we need to make sure one of the conclusion hold true. please check the question stem ie, starting from based on the information provided.

hritik_jain

What if he is planning on hosting atleast 9 people instead of 10?

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liberoasperiores · Answer

WOuld help quesitons are resolve CR type quesitons.

If any statement explains the conclusion or in this case the preferences then the statement helps.

WIth this theory, one can complete this quesiton in time constraint.

Adit_ · Answer

Bunuel  If the same table were slightly modified with the Max occupancy of Room 2 having 13 lets say, then Statement 2 would be "No" right?

My whole thought process for 2 is the fact that firstly he rejected 4 and 5 for reasons not sure but lets say its due to the occupancy rule. I could make a counter argument for choosing room 3 as one of the option if it were 13 saying 13 was the deciding factor and "not" the video conferencing "no" factor. Now in this case however we have a deadlock with Room 1 and 2 having the same occupancy so there is enough reason to believe that he wanted yes as his priority considering max occupancy as a threshold (part of my pre thinking) and he "DID" want a non conferencing hall.

He could have taken room 3 however but rejected possibly for reasons we arent aware of. It still doesnt take away the fact that "no" was part of a preference he went for, and IMO its all thanks to room 1 and 2 having same occupancy.

Is my pre thinking and thought process right in this case?

keshubhturakhia · Answer

I agree, nothing helps explain that logic and so statement 1 and 2 felt as though it didnt help explain any point fully

HarshKasliwal · Answer

Tell me if i am thinking wrong. But according to me if we look at second statement it says : Does not want video conferencing. If this is true, then felipe should have chosen Room 2 over room 1 as 1. Room 2 is available at an earlier day 2. Other than VC all aspects or room 1 and 2 are same. Therefore 2 doesn't help in explaining the his choices.

Adit_ · Answer

The stem is tricky. The questions asks which of the statements would HELP explain his eventual choice if they are true. He does choose room 2, so he is willing to have a no video conferencing room. So it does explain. Your point of choosing one room over another is irrelevant, priority is not the point. There could have been reasons beyond what the statement says that made him choose room 1,6,2 in that order but the fact that he ends up choosing one without video conferencing clearly shows that that he is okay with choosing with one without it.

Yes	No
		For this meeting, Felipe is willing to schedule later in the week in order to have a room with video-conferencing equipment.
		For this meeting, Felipe is willing to use a room that does not have video-conferencing equipment.
		Felipe is planning for at least 10 people to attend the meeting at the office.

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Room	Max occupancy	Projector?	Video conferencing?	Availability this week
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