GMAT OFFICIAL QUESTIONS

1) To persuade consumers to buy its personal computers for home

use, SuperComp has enlisted computer dealers in shopping
centers to carry its product and launched a major advertising
campaign that has already increased public awareness of the
SuperComp brand. Despite the fact that these dealers achieved
dramatically increased sales of computers last month, however,
analysts doubt that SuperComps products accounted for much
of that increase.
Which of the following, if true, best supports the claim that the
analysts doubt is well founded?
In market surveys, few respondents who had been exposed to SuperComps advertising
campaign said they thought there was no point in owning a home computer.
People who own a home computer often buy a second such computer, but only rarely do
people buy a third computer.
SuperComps dealers also sell other brands of computers that are very similar to
SuperComps but less expensive and that afford the dealers a significantly higher
markup.
The dealers who were chosen to sell SuperComps computers were selected in part
because their stores are located in shopping centers that attract relatively wealthy
shoppers.
Computer-industry analysts believed before the SuperComp campaign began that most
consumers who already owned home computers were not yet ready to replace them.

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You answered "SuperComps dealers also sell other brands of computers that are
very similar to SuperComps but less expensive and that afford the dealers a
significantly higher markup." and that's correct because:
The passage states that the stores through which SuperComp is selling its computers are
experiencing dramatically increased sales. Analysts doubt, however, that SuperComp's
plan for selling tis computers for home use is really working. The question asks you to
identify a fact that justifies the analysts' doubt.
Choice C is the best answer. If consumers who are drawn to a SuperComp dealer find
less expensive alternatives that the dealer has a strong incentive to sell to them, the
analysts' doubt is justified, since it is likely that the increase in the dealer's sales is due
not to sales of SuperComp's computers, but rather to sales of these other brands.
Choice A is incorrect; it suggests that there is a market for home computers, so does
nothing to justify the analysts' doubts. Choice B is incorrect because it provides
information about the consumers' buying inclinations, but does not provide justification for
the analysts' doubts, given that the dealers were actually selling more computers than
usual. Choice D is incorrect since it suggests that SuperComp chose well-located
dealers, and does nothing to justify the analysts' doubts. Finally, the beliefs mentioned in
choice E, which were formed before the campaign, cannot justify the analysts' doubts in
the face of the evidence about increased sales.

2) If u > t, r > q, s > t, and t > r, which of the following must be true?
I. u > s
II. s > q
III. u > r

(A) I only

(B) II only

(C) III only

(D) I and II

(E) II and III

3) One hour after Yolanda started walking from X to Y, a distance of 45 miles, Bob started
walking along the same road from Y to X. If Yolandas walking rate was 3 miles per hour and
Bobs was 4 miles per hour, how many miles had Bob walked when they met?
Answer Choices

A. 24
B. 23
C. 22
D. 21
E. 19.5