In a study conducted in Canada, servers in various restaurants wrote "Thank you" on randomly selected bills before presenting the bills to their customers. Tips on these bills were an average of three percentage points higher than tips on bills without the message. Therefore, if servers in Canada regularly wrote "Thank you" on restaurant bills, their average income from tips would be significantly higher than it otherwise would have been.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
(A) The "Thank you" messages would have the same impact on regular patrons of a restaurant as they would on occasional patrons of the same restaurant.
(B) Regularly seeing "Thank you" written on their bills would not lead restaurant patrons to revert to their earlier tipping habits.
(C) The written "Thank you" reminds restaurant patrons that tips constitute a significant part of the income of many food servers.
(D) The rate at which people tip food servers in Canada does not vary with how expensive a restaurant is.
(E) Virtually all patrons of the Canadian restaurants in the study who were given a bill with "Thank you" written on it left a larger tip than they otherwise would have.
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An assumption is something that must be true for the conclusion to follow from the given premises. In this argument, the author concludes that if servers across the country wrote "Thank You" on the bills, tips will increase significantly. Since the argument is based on sampling data, it is vulnerable to the assumptions...
(1) that what happened in the sample will happen in general and
(2) that the correlation observed in the sample is actually evidence of a specific cause-effect relationship.
The full solution below is taken from the GMATFix App.
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(1) that what happened in the sample will happen in general and
(2) that the correlation observed in the sample is actually evidence of a specific cause-effect relationship.
The full solution below is taken from the GMATFix App.
-Patrick
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