Grootland Taxes

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logitech: Legendary Member; Posts: 2134; Joined: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:26 pmFollowed by: 25 members; Thanked: 237 times; GMAT Score:730

by logitech » Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:45 am

maihuna wrote:I agree with Logitech and sligtly differ with Craymya viewpoint, I am solving some CR's that I did logged as wrong one, and after lot lot time I was surprised to see I did 90% of them again wrong.
I did saw solutions then and somehow tries to fix my logic...but see after a while I have forgotten them all...reason is simple....for some questions that we are doing incorrectly and its not an simple mistake...we are bound to repeat it...let me clarify it with following two examples that has been discussed yesterday:

Surgical wound vs Zoo and pure acquarium: In my first attempt I did both wrong..in my second attempt first one came correct w/o lot of efforts while Zoo one again came wrong and I coudnt. Reason is here: Surgical one is mistake done in understanding what is being asked...if one understand and get some more thought he willnt be caught again...but Zoo acquaium the answer is un-convincing...why? let us see...its talk abt vaccationers vs visitors in premise...and one of the answer that talks about local is wrong while one that talks about metros and more nos of zoo vs pure acquarium is correct..why? Why the hell I am even supposed to know what an Metro is...when premise has to do nothing withthat..

Take this Headache some EnoSign CR..why I need to know that Sinus and headeache due to cold need to be same?

In these situation, when OA is there a person just need to convince a little while that no no since there are more no of pure acquarium outlet there are more visitors..hey u didnt understand that sinus headache can be cured by taking cold-headache mistake...I did it...that sort ofthing...

Believe me, yesterday I went throw 25 wrong CR's did repeat the mistake in 16 of them...looked on net and found no convincing answer that I can apply as a pattern on new questions....and the one that I have posted w/o OA I can see many wrong options are being discusses with confidence...that confidence converts in surity when OA is there...so I would like to make following proposal: Ban the OA for hard questions. Seems not too illogical.

Great observation. I agree with you.

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vivek.kapoor83: Legendary Member; Posts: 833; Joined: Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:56 am; Thanked: 13 times

by vivek.kapoor83 » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:53 am

i ll go with A.....
OA pls............

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Prashant Ranjan: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 40; Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:36 amFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 6 times

by Prashant Ranjan » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:18 pm

@Raviagni and @Cramya, have pretty much cracked the solution. However for novices like me, I would like to put a little detailed solution(at the risk of restating what @cramya and @raviagni have already said).

This is a double negative question. The logical completion of the argument would be something that is against borrowing or something that favors savings.
A clearly does that:
Nevertheless, it is clear that Grootland's tax system does not consistently favor borrowing over saving, for if it did, there would be no tax relief in Grootland for those portions of a taxpayer's income, if any, that are set aside to increase that taxpayer's total savings.

This means that Goortland's tax systems are indeed supporting savings, and thus we can say that the system doesn't consistently favor borrowing over saving.
(B) in a way says that there should be "tax relief for the processing fee that taxpayers pay to lending institutions, when obtaining loans". This means that it favors borrowing, but as per the argument we need to go against borrowing and favor savings. So this is incorrect.
(C) favors borrowing again. So incorrect.
(D) goes against savings. Not good.
(E) Taxes due - taxes to be levied - so it again goes against savings.

We see that (A) only favors the argument. So (A) is the correct answer.

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