查看: 1550|回复: 2

[help] an old GMAT CR Question

[复制链接]

vantreal

楼主

发表于 2007-4-27 16:14:00 | 只看该作者

[help] an old GMAT CR Question

Two hundred corporations with net incomes of more than $122 million each accounted for 77% of total corporate gifts to the US higher education in 1985. That year, 26% of total corporate gifts to US higher education came from 14 Japanese corporations, each of which received income from 27 or more countries.

If the statements above are true, which of the following must also be true?

(A) Most of the net income earned by the 14 Japanese corporations was earned outside of Japan. (?)

(B) Individuals contributed 23% of total gifts to US higher education in 1985. (uncertain, other groups might contribute, too.)

(C) Gifts from corporations accounted for more than half of the total contributions to US higher education in 1985. (?)

(D) One or more of the 200 corporations with more than $122 in net income received income from 27 or more countries.

(E) Most of the 14 Japanese corporations earned more than $122 million in net income in 1985. - not mentioned

(A) and (C) are confusing.....
can someone please explain? 3q3q

回复

同意！

看一下！

Mark一下！

gonghao

沙发

发表于 2007-4-27 22:44:00 | 只看该作者

D is the answer I think.

A: How and where does Japanese earn thier net income can't be estimated since we don't know the value of their net income in domestic market and oversea market. Greater amount of source of country doesn't mean bigger net income involved since domestic market could be the dominate resource of the net income.

C: The whole passage is talking about the total corporate gifts not the total contributions. We don't know what consists of the total contributions except total corporate gifts.

D: As we know 77% of the total corporate gifts come from 200 companies whose net incomes are more than 122 million. So the rest, 23%, is remaining for other companies. However, since 14 Japaness companies account for 26%, so there would be at least 3% of total corporate gifts come from Japanese companies when all the 23% of total corporate gifts remaining for other companies are drive from Japanese companies. 3% must come from at least one company since it couldn't belong to no one so D stands I think.