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Factory Q: Last Year vs Year End

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by kanha81 » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:28 am
How to resolve such questions quickly when the details areso confusing especially the verbatim?

q: of 3000 cars manufactured in factory Q last year, how many were still in operation at the end of the year?

1) of all cars manufactured in Factory Q, 60% were still in operation at the end of year
2) A total of 48,000 cars manufactured in Factory Q were still in operation at the end of last year.

I STRONGLY believe that this question stem just talks about last year and not about end of the year.

What should be the take-away?
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Re: Factory Q: Last Year vs Year End

by marcusking » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:00 am
kanha81 wrote:How to resolve such questions quickly when the details areso confusing especially the verbatim?

q: of 3000 cars manufactured in factory Q last year, how many were still in operation at the end of the year?

1) of all cars manufactured in Factory Q, 60% were still in operation at the end of year
2) A total of 48,000 cars manufactured in Factory Q were still in operation at the end of last year.

I STRONGLY believe that this question stem just talks about last year and not about end of the year.

What should be the take-away?
Where are you getting these questions from? The wording is very tricky and makes things ambiguous. From what I've seen of official GMAT questions they aren't usually like this. But I may have just never seen one.
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by kamu » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:14 pm
q: of 3000 cars manufactured in factory Q last year, how many were still in operation at the end of the year?

Could you please copy paste as it was printed.
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