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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 16 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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Manager: Accounting and Billing are located right next to each other and the two departments do similar kinds of work; yet expenditures for clerical supplies charged to Billing are much higher. Is Billing wasting supplies? Head of Billing: Not at all.
Which of the following, if true, best supports the position of the Head of Billing?

  1. There are more staff members in Accounting than in Billing.
  2. Two years ago, expenditures in Accounting for clerical supplies were the same as were expenditures that year in Billing for clerical supplies.
  3. The work of Billing now requires a wider variety of clerical supplies than it did in the past.
  4. Some of the paper-and-pencil work of both Accounting and Billing has been replaced by work done on computers.
  5. Members of Accounting found the clerical supplies cabinet of Billing more convenient to go to for supplies than their own department’s cabinet.

Answer(s): D



Human beings can see the spatial relations among objects by processing information conveyed by light. Scientists trying to build computers that can detect spatial relations by the same kind of process have so far designed and built stationary machines. However, these scientists will not achieve their goal until they produce such a machine that can move around in its environment.
Which of the following, if true, would best support the prediction above?

  1. Human beings are dependent on visual cues from motion in order to detect spatial relations.
  2. Human beings can often easily detect the spatial relations among objects, even when those objects are in motion.
  3. Detecting spatial relations among objects requires drawing inferences from the information conveyed by light.
  4. Although human beings can discern spatial relations through their sense of hearing, vision is usually the most important means of detecting spatial relations.
  5. Information about the spatial relations among objects can be obtained by noticing such things as shadows and the relative sizes of objects.

Answer(s): B



Which of the following, if true, best completes the argument below?
Comparisons of the average standards of living of the citizens of two countries should reflect the citizens’ comparative access to goods and services. Reliable figures in a country’s own currency for the average income of its citizens are easily obtained. But it is difficult to get an accurate comparison of average standards of living from these figures, because

  1. there are usually no figures comparing how much of two different currencies must be spent in order to purchase a given quantity of goods and services
  2. wage levels for the same job vary greatly from country to country, depending on cultural as well as on purely economic factors
  3. these figures must be calculated by dividing the gross national product of a country by the size of its population
  4. comparative access to goods and services is only one of several factors relevant in determining quality of life
  5. the wealth, and hence the standard of living, of a country’s citizens is very closely related to their income

Answer(s): A



The level of lead contamination in United States rivers declined between 1975 and 1985. Federal regulations requiring a drop in industrial discharges of lead went into effect in 1975, but the major cause of the decline was a 75 percent drop in the use of leaded gasoline between 1975 and 1985.
Which of the following, if true, best supports the claim that the major cause of the decline in the level of lead contamination in United States rives was the decline in the use of leaded gasoline?

  1. The level of lead contamination in United States rivers fell sharply in both 1975 and 1983.
  2. Most of the decline in industrial discharges of lead occurred before 1976, but the largest decline in the level of river contamination occurred between 1980 and 1985.
  3. Levels of lead contamination in rivers fell sharply in 1975-1976 and rose very slightly over the next nine years.
  4. Levels of lead contamination rose in those rivers where there was reduced river flow due to drought.
  5. Although the use of leaded gasoline declined 75 percent between 1975 and 1985, 80 percent of the decline took place in 1985.

Answer(s): B



George Bernard Shaw wrote: “That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.”
Shaw’s statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?

  1. Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit
  2. Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population
  3. Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins
  4. Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share
  5. Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples’ basic needs

Answer(s): A



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