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The most successful economies_LSAT

by gmat_perfect » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:10 am
The most successful economies have been, and will continue to be, those that train as many people as possible in the human skills required to research, to develop, and to apply new technology. Japan is a model for this sort of training effort. Europe as a whole is in a weaker position: there is a shortage of skilled labor trained to use the new technologies and there are not enough scientists able to develop and apply the technology. However, even in Japan there is a shortage of technically qualified people, and, like most European countries, Japan has far too many workers qualified to perform only menial tasks.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) There is a greater worldwide shortage of research scientists than there is of engineers.
(B) Japan is not the best country against which to measure a country's economic success.
(C) Japan's successful economy depends upon an uncommonly narrow base of highly skilled labor.
(D) To be economically more successful, Europe needs to train more people in the new technologies.
(E) European countries have economies that are more successful than those of most other countries.

OA: Later
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by thephoenix » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:46 am
imo c
rest all are out of scope
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by hardik.jadeja » Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:21 pm
IMO C

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by nikhilkatira » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:26 am
gmat_perfect wrote:The most successful economies have been, and will continue to be, those that train as many people as possible in the human skills required to research, to develop, and to apply new technology. Japan is a model for this sort of training effort. Europe as a whole is in a weaker position: there is a shortage of skilled labor trained to use the new technologies and there are not enough scientists able to develop and apply the technology. However, even in Japan there is a shortage of technically qualified people, and, like most European countries, Japan has far too many workers qualified to perform only menial tasks.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) There is a greater worldwide shortage of research scientists than there is of engineers.
(B) Japan is not the best country against which to measure a country's economic success.
(C) Japan's successful economy depends upon an uncommonly narrow base of highly skilled labor.
(D) To be economically more successful, Europe needs to train more people in the new technologies.
(E) European countries have economies that are more successful than those of most other countries.

OA: Later
why is D wrong ?

OA please
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by sk818020 » Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:48 pm
nikhilkatira wrote:
why is D wrong ?

OA please
I agree. In my opinion the answer is C.

D is wrong because that inference means that the only way for the economy to become successful would be to train more people in new technology. But the passage states that Europe has two problems, a shortage of skilled labor and a that there are not enough scientists to develop and implement new technologies. It does not say that one or the other by itself, if addressed would make the economy more successful. Therefore we cannot validly infer that addressing one would make them more successful. What if it took both?

Hope that helps.

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Jared