French-manufactured public toilet

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French-manufactured public toilet

by ankit0411 » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:52 am
The proposal to install French-manufactured public toilet kiosks on Boston streets has run into several bureaucratic roadblocks. The director of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, for instance, has insisted that under city law, each and every unit must be big enough for a wheelchair. But if all the kiosks are that large, the City Arts Commission is unlikely to approve their placement on the streets because they would be too cumbersome and unattractive. Also, the Paris-based company that has operated the patented, self-cleaning, coin-operated toilet kiosks in Paris for years has said that it is unwilling to do the job in Boston if all the toilets have to be made accessible to the handicapped.

1)No public toilet kiosks will be installed on Boston streets.
2)If public toilet kiosks are installed on Boston streets, it will be over the protests of the director of the City Arts Commission
3)Wheelchair accessibility is the issue most likely to doom the plan to install public toilet kiosks
4)A compromise must be worked out between the City Arts Commission and the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities.
5)The Paris-based company is unlikely to install the kiosks if the position of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities remains unchanged.


I have marked the answer as C but the OA is E.
Can anyone please help me explain ?

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by sandeep_thaparianz » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:21 am
What is the question??

You have written the argument and options.

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by ankit0411 » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:40 am
Sorry , the question is :

If all of the above statements are true, which one of the following must also be true?

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by Kasia@EconomistGMAT » Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:40 pm
The question consists of:
Premise 1 (and 2) - the idea to install public toilet kiosks in Boston encountered some problems due to red tape, e.g.(premise 2) the kiosks must be big enough for a wheelchair
Conclusion - if the toilets are accessible to the disabled, they will PROBABLY not be approved and there will be a problem to find a company to operate them

Answer C does not have to be necessarily true based on the argument above. There might be other issues that can also prevent the installation of public toilet kiosks.

Answer E states that the Paris-based company is UNLIKELY to install the kiosks. The word UNLIKELY is what makes this statement true.
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