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Reasoning Participants at a continuing legal education seminar were asked to evaluate the seminar schedule, location and topic selection to determine whether changes would increase attendance at next year's seminar. A majority of the evaluations recommended that the seminar schedule be changed so that the sessions would be held from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. instead of the current 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. schedule. Based upon the results of the evaluations, the sponsors of the seminar decided to change to an earlier schedule for next year's program. Which of the following selections, if true, would most prove the sponsors right in their decision to change to an earlier schedule next year? (A) Approximately 85% of the people who received evaluation forms completed their forms and handed them in. (B) Other seminar sponsors have made changes in their programs based on comments they have received in evaluation forms. (C) About the same percentage of people attending the seminar wanted the earlier schedule as those who returned their evaluation forms. (D) An earlier seminar schedule would make commuting easier for the participants. (E) A significantly larger percentage of people who preferred the earlier schedule returned their evaluation forms than people who preferred the 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. schedule. |
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Quantitative
Ability A group of 35 men are employed to complete a work in 46 days. After they worked for 32 days, the contractor employed 5 more men were employed and the work is done on time. If the contractor had not employed the extra men, the work would have been completed in how many days? A. 48 days B. 47 days C. 49 days D. 50 days E. None of these |
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Posted on 26-June-09
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So,folks here are the correct answers Critical Reasoning The correct answer is C. The argument presumes that the comments in the evaluation forms are representative of all the people who attended the seminar. So the reliability of the preferences expressed in the evaluation forms depends upon how representative they are of all seminar participants. If the evaluation comments were representative of all participants, then reliance upon them would be warranted in determining the schedule for next year. Upon first glance, selection (A) looks correct. But a close reading of selection (A) suggests there might be a problem with how many people actually received the evaluation forms. If the evaluation forms were handed out only at every other table, then the comments might be representative of only half of the participants. Selections (B) and (D) are irrelevant to the argument here. Selection (E) weakens the reliability of the results rather than strengthens them because it appears that a rather small number of people would have a big impact on |
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Quantitative
Ability The correct answer is A. Given that 5 extra men worked for 14 days. So these 5 extra men contributed 14×5 = 70 man days. IF these 5 men were not employed, these 70 man days must also be contributed by the initial group of 35 men for which they will take 2 days. Hence instead of 46 days, the work would have been done in 48 days. Click here for the next week's Punch |
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lamaster said – Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:34:29 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
way of explanatio….great