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Federal law

by vaibhav.iit2002 » Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:28 am
Federal law prohibits businesses from reimbursing any employees for the cost of owning and operating a private aircraft that is used for business purposes. Thus, many American companies themselves purchase private aircraft. The vast majority of the business aviation fleet is owned by small and mid-size businesses, and flights are strictly for business purposes, with mostly mid-level employees on board. These companies and their boards of directors are in full compliance with the law and with what is best for their businesses.

Which of the following can be most properly inferred from the statements above?
a. The Federal law in question costs businesses money.
b. Most executives would rather fly on company owned planes than on commercial airlines.
c. Large businesses usually have their executives fly first or business class on commercial flights.
d. Upper level executives are less often in compliance with the law.
e. By not receiving any reimbursement for these flights, the mid-level executives on board are complying with the law.

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by rajatche33 » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:15 am
IMO: E

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by delhiboy1979 » Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:04 am
I cant pick between A and E, can someone help please

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by Ad_Astra_Per_Aspera » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:32 am
A is incorrect because there is no evidence about the relative costs, so it does not have to be true that the law costs businesses money.

E is correct since if the companies are in full compliance with this law (the statements indicate this), it must be true that the executives following the company's guidelines also are fully complying with the law.

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by vaibhav.iit2002 » Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:58 pm
Ad_Astra_Per_Aspera wrote:A is incorrect because there is no evidence about the relative costs, so it does not have to be true that the law costs businesses money.

E is correct since if the companies are in full compliance with this law (the statements indicate this), it must be true that the executives following the company's guidelines also are fully complying with the law.
Still its difficult to remove A i guess

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by heshamelaziry » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:14 pm
Ad_Astra_Per_Aspera wrote:A is incorrect because there is no evidence about the relative costs, so it does not have to be true that the law costs businesses money.

E is correct since if the companies are in full compliance with this law (the statements indicate this), it must be true that the executives following the company's guidelines also are fully complying with the law.
Relative costs are not important for answer cjoice A to be correct, because whether it costs businesses 10 dollars or a thousand dollars a month to operate a fleet of planes, this is still cost paid for by businesses. Also, if businesses could reimburse employees for usage of their private jets, it will avoid the costs associated with maintainance of the planes.

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by heshamelaziry » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:16 pm
Provide OA please

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by vaibhav.iit2002 » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:48 pm
OA is E

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by heshamelaziry » Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:03 pm
I find inference and must be true more difficult than parallel reasoning ! There many things that can be inferred.

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by kris77 » Sun May 15, 2016 4:45 pm
I agree with you guys. I also think that the right answer is E