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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 18 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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Consumer income reports produced by the government distinguish between households and families by means of the following definition: “A family is a household containing a householder and at least one person related to the householder.” Except for the homeless and people in group living quarters, most people live in households. According to the definition above, which of the following must be true?

  1. All householders are members of families.
  2. All families include a householder.
  3. All of the people related to a householder form a family.
  4. Some people residing in group living quarters are members of families.
  5. Some homeless people reside in group living quarters.

Answer(s): B



In a study of the effect of color on productivity, 50 of 100 factory workers were moved from their drab workroom to a brightly colored workroom. Both these workers and the 50 who remained in the drab workroom increased their productivity, probably as a result of the interest taken by researchers in the work of both groups during the study.
Which of the following, if true, would cast most doubt upon the author’s interpretation of the study results given above?

  1. The 50 workers moved to the brightly colored room performed precisely the same manufacturing task as the workers who remained in the drab workroom.
  2. The drab workroom was designed to provide adequate space for at most 65 workers.
  3. The 50 workers who moved to the brightly colored workroom were matched as closely as possible in age and level of training to the 50 workers who remained in the drab work-room.
  4. Nearly all the workers in both groups had volunteered to move to the brightly colored workroom.
  5. Many of the workers who moved to the brightly colored workroom reported that they liked the drab workroom as well as or better than they liked the brightly colored workroom.

Answer(s): E



The proportion of manufacturing companies in Alameda that use microelectronics in their manufacturing processes increased from 6 percent in 1979 to 66 percent in 1990. Many labor leaders say that the introduction of microelectronics is the principal cause of the great increase in unemployment during that period in Alameda. In actual fact, however, most of the job losses were due to organizational changes. Moreover, according to new figures released by the labor department, there were many more people employed in Alameda in the manufacturing industry in 1990 than in 1979.
Which of the following, if true, best reconciles the discrepancy between the increase in unemployment and the increase in jobs in the manufacturing industry of Alameda?

  1. Many products that contain microelectronic components are now assembled completely by machine.
  2. Workers involved in the various aspects of the manufacturing processes that use microelectronic technology need extensive training.
  3. It is difficult to evaluate numerically what impact on job security the introduction of microelectronics in the workplace had before 1979.
  4. In 1990 over 90 percent of the jobs in Alameda’s manufacturing companies were filled by workers who moved to Alameda because they had skills for which there was no demand in Alameda prior to the introduction of microelectronics there.
  5. Many workers who have retired from the manufacturing industry in Alameda since 1979 have not been replaced by younger workers.

Answer(s): D



The number of musicians employed to play accompaniment for radio and television commercials has sharply decreased over the past ten years. This has occurred even though the number of commercials produced each year has not significantly changed for the last ten years.
Which of the following, if it occurred during the past ten years, would contribute LEAST to an explanation of the facts above?

  1. The type of music most popular for use in commercials has changed from a type that requires a large number of instruments to a type that requires very few instruments.
  2. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use only the spoken word and sound effects, rather than musical accompaniment.
  3. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use a synthesizer, an instrument on which one musician can reproduce the sound of many musicians playing together.
  4. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use prerecorded music as their only source of music.
  5. There has been an increase in the number of commercials that use musicians just starting in the music industry rather than musicians experienced in accompanying commercials.

Answer(s): E



Recent audits revealed that BanqueCard, a credit service, has erred in calculating the interest it charges its clients. But BanqueCard’s chief accountant reasoned that the profits that the company shows would remain unaffected by a revision of its clients’ credit statements to correct its previous billing errors, since just as many clients had been overcharged as undercharged.
Which of the following is a reasoning error that the accountant makes in concluding that correcting its clients’ statements would leave BanqueCard’s profits unaffected?

  1. Relying on the reputation of BanqueCard as a trustworthy credit service to maintain the company’s clientele after the error becomes widely known
  2. Failing to establish that BanqueCard charges the same rates of interest for all of its clients
  3. Overlooking the possibility that the amount by which BanqueCard’s clients had been overcharged might be greater than the amount by which they had been undercharged
  4. Assuming that the clients who had been overcharged by BanqueCard had not noticed the error in their credit bills
  5. Presupposing that each one of BanqueCard’s clients had either been overcharged or else had been undercharged by the billing error

Answer(s): C



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