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Evco and Radeco

by gmat009 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:32 am
In 1990 all of the people who applied for a job at Evco also applied for a job at Radeco, and Evco and Radeco each offered jobs to half of these applicants. Therefore, every one of these applicants must have been offered a job in 1990.
The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions about these job applicants?
(A) All of the applicants were very well qualified for a job at either Evco or Radeco.
(B) All of the applicants accepted a job at either Evco or Radeco.
(C) None of the applicants was offered a job by both Evco and Radeco.
(D) None of the applicants had applied for jobs at places other than Evco and Radeco.
(E) None of the applicants had previously worked for either Evco or Radeco.
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Re: Evco and Radeco

by Fiver » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:43 am
gmat009 wrote:In 1990 all of the people who applied for a job at Evco also applied for a job at Radeco, and Evco and Radeco each offered jobs to half of these applicants. Therefore, every one of these applicants must have been offered a job in 1990.
The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions about these job applicants?
(A) All of the applicants were very well qualified for a job at either Evco or Radeco.
(B) All of the applicants accepted a job at either Evco or Radeco.
(C) None of the applicants was offered a job by both Evco and Radeco.
(D) None of the applicants had applied for jobs at places other than Evco and Radeco.
(E) None of the applicants had previously worked for either Evco or Radeco.
C is my pick as for all to be offered a job, there must be no intersection in the offers made by Radeco and Evco, in other words no single candidate must get 2 simultaneous offers.
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Re: Evco and Radeco

by banker1 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:01 am
Fiver wrote:C is my pick as for all to be offered a job, there must be no intersection in the offers made by Radeco and Evco, in other words no single candidate must get 2 simultaneous offers.
Agree w/ Fiver.

(A), (D), and (E) are out of scope. Qualifications, applications other than at these two companies, prior work experience have nothing to do with the passage.

(B) is irrelevant, the passage is about job offers, not job acceptance.

(C) is the right answer. If each company offered a position to 50% of the job pool and everyone got an offer, then no employee could receive more than one offer.
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by EricLien9122 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:07 am
This question kind of reminds me a overlapping math question. if either place was offering a job to 50% of their applicants, then none of the offering has any overlapping between both companies (in order to add up 100%).


C sound the best in my opinion.
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by gmat009 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:03 am
What's wrong with A. He is asking for assumption and his conclusion is
"Therefore, every one of these applicants must have been offered a job in 1990. "
if we negate A then we cannot reach that conclusion
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by EricLien9122 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:45 am
GMAT009:

It is out of scope, because qualification has nothing to do with the offering jobs. But let's use an example to show it:

total applicants: 2 people (both are qualified as stated in assumption).
company A offers job to person #1 (50% offering rate).
company B offers job to person #1 (50% offering rate).

then...

Not everyone got an job offer, because person #2 didn't get a job offer from either place.
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by lalitgmat » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:56 am
Exactly, then as per "C", #1 has a job offer by both Evco and Radeco.
So only assumption left is #1 or #2 were job-less before they applied to Evco OR Radeco.

Hence "E"
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by banker1 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:59 am
lalitgmat wrote:Exactly, then as per "C", #1 has a job offer by both Evco and Radeco.
So only assumption left is #1 or #2 were job-less before they applied to Evco OR Radeco.

Hence "E"
Actually doesn't (C) state #1 would get a job offer from Evco, NOT Radeco and # 2 would get a job offer from Radeco, NOT Evco?
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by raunekk » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:55 pm
imo:C
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by stop@800 » Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:23 am
All of the applicants were very well qualified for a job at either Evco or Radeco.
Lets assume all were not well qualified

Total ppl applied = 100
qualified = 90

E offered job to 50 [out of 90]
and R offered job to 50 [out of 90]
that means 10 people got job in both

Hope this helps!!
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by tuscan21 » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:41 am
I cannot understand why it's A and not C. Can anybody elaborate on this?
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by delhiboy1979 » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:47 am
It has got to be C, it cannot be A. what has qualification got to do with anything in the argument.
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by rseeker2 » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:55 am
agree with Delhi boy...

say 50 were offered a job by Evco... only if the other 50 were offered a job by Radeco... would all the 100 have a job.
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by samanthaJ79 » Sun May 15, 2016 5:08 am
C is favorit
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