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by aspirant2011 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:22 am
The staff of Soundview school is spending more and more of its time taking care of children whose parents do not arrive to pick them up from class on time. As a result, more teachers will have to be hired. The school could, instead, charge parents a nominal fee whenever they fail to arrive to pick their children up on time. This charge would encourage punctual pickup.

The conclusion above depends most strongly on which of the following assumptions?

A) Parents will simplify their daily schedules in order to arrive at pickup time punctually.

B) The fee charged for late pickup will not be a significant additional burden to most families that can afford tuition at Soundview School.

C) Parents will find the late pickup fee more objectionable than a tuition hike that would be necessary to pay for additional staff.

D) A staff of highly qualified teachers is part of what encourages parents to bring their children to Soundview school.

E) Parents who have errands to run or other tasks to complete could place their children in dedicated after school daycare programs.

[spoiler]OA: Please discuss each answer choice in detail[/spoiler]
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by sunnyjohn » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:48 am
[spoiler]IMO:C[/spoiler]

Argument:

A nominal fee will cause parents to be punctual.

the assumption I thought just after reading the stimulus was - Fee will be a sort of burden on Parents otherwise who cares of a small fee. Or if fee is not a burden than objective won't be fulfilled.

A) Parents will simplify their daily schedules in order to arrive at pickup time punctually.
Yeah, but in order to this "fee hike" is not necessary.

B) The fee charged for late pickup will not be a significant additional burden to most families that can afford tuition at Soundview School.
Opposite to what i thought, This weakens the argument.

C) Parents will find the late pickup fee more objectionable than a tuition hike that would be necessary to pay for additional staff.
Shows the fee hike will hurt Parents somehow. CONTENDER.

D) A staff of highly qualified teachers is part of what encourages parents to bring their children to Soundview school.
Irrelevant.

E) Parents who have errands to run or other tasks to complete could place their children in dedicated after school daycare programs.
Irrelevant.

C looks best option to me.
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by aspirant2011 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:54 am
My doubt is the latter part in option C I.e than a tuition hike that would be necessary to pay for additional staff. How does this part play a role in making option C the right answer????
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by Deepthi Subbu » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:31 pm
OA C . My assumption is supposedly the school has to pay say $ x to hire a new staff in order to balance the lack of enough staffs to take care of children who are not picked up on time and the school charges $ y from each parent as a fee for letting their kids stay longer than accepted .

If y > x ,then there is definitely a concern.
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by sl750 » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:47 am
I would select B

Conclusion : The nominal fee will prompt parents to pick-up their children on time

B weakens the conclusion when you negate it
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by GmatKiss » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:27 am
IMO:C
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by nafi9090 » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:54 pm
IMO C whats the OA??
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by garima99 » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:54 am
aspirant2011 wrote:The staff of Soundview school is spending more and more of its time taking care of children whose parents do not arrive to pick them up from class on time. As a result, more teachers will have to be hired. The school could, instead, charge parents a nominal fee whenever they fail to arrive to pick their children up on time. This charge would encourage punctual pickup.

The conclusion above depends most strongly on which of the following assumptions?

A) Parents will simplify their daily schedules in order to arrive at pickup time punctually.

B) The fee charged for late pickup will not be a significant additional burden to most families that can afford tuition at Soundview School.

C) Parents will find the late pickup fee more objectionable than a tuition hike that would be necessary to pay for additional staff.

D) A staff of highly qualified teachers is part of what encourages parents to bring their children to Soundview school.

E) Parents who have errands to run or other tasks to complete could place their children in dedicated after school daycare programs.

[spoiler]OA: Please discuss each answer choice in detail[/spoiler]
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by aspirant2011 » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:40 am
OA is C and I think deepti subbhu is correct in explaining the same.......
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