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GMAT-Section-3-Verbal-Ability – Section Three : Verbal Ability

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Question 19 (Critical Reasoning Questions)

Instead of blaming an airline accident on pilot error, investigators should find out why the error was made by analyzing airplane design, airline management, and pilot-training programs. For only then can changes be made to ensure that the same type of error does not recur and cause another accident.

Which of the following is a presupposition of the argument above?

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    Pilot error is not a contributing factor in most airline accidents.
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    Airline companies themselves should be the agents who investigate airline accidents.
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    Stricter government regulation of airline companies will make air travel significantly safer.
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    Investigators of airline accidents should contribute to the prevention of future accidents.
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    Most pilots who make errors in flying will repeat their errors unless they are retrained.
Question 20 (Critical Reasoning Questions)

Seven countries signed a treaty binding each of them to perform specified actions on a certain fixed date, with the actions of each conditional on simultaneous action taken by the other countries. Each country was also to notify the six other countries when it had completed its action. The simultaneous-action provision of the treaty leaves open the possibility that

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    the compliance date was subject to postponement, according to the terms of the treaty
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    one of the countries might not be required to make any changes or take any steps in order to comply with the treaty, whereas all the other countries are so required
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    each country might have a well-founded excuse, based on the provision, for its own lack of compliance
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    the treaty specified that the signal for one of the countries to initiate action was notification by the other countries that they had completed action
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    there was ambiguity with respect to the date after which all actions contemplated in the treaty are to be complete