Many employees of GEOCOM, a company established five years

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Many employees of GEOCOM, a company established five years ago, have service vehicles. Since all employees of the quality control department (QCD) live within ten miles of the company's campus, it can be concluded that none of the employees of the quality control department has a service vehicle provided by the company.

The conclusion drawn above depends on which of the following assumptions?

(A)No employee who lives within ten miles of the company's campus has a service vehicle.

(B)None of the quality control department employees lives farther than fifteen miles from the company's campus.

(C)Some employees of the marketing department live within ten miles of the company's campus and have service vehicles.

(D)All employees who live within ten miles from the company work for the quality control department.

(E)All employees who don't have a service car are employees of the quality control department.
OA A
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by Lifetron » Mon Apr 22, 2013 1:28 am
IMO A

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by himu » Mon Apr 22, 2013 1:55 am
IMO A

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by sgmk011188 » Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:50 am
Is the answer A?

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by srcc25anu » Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:02 pm
Many Employees have a service vehicle.
All QCD employees live <= 10 miles of campus
Concl: None of QCD employees has a service vehicle provided by company

A. No employee who lives within ten miles of the company's campus has a service vehicle
If we negate the above, some employee who lives <=10 miles of campus has a service vehicle. Therefore conclusion cannot hold that none of QCD has a service vehicle provided by the company.

Hence A should be the correct answer.