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Re: PT 56 Section 2 Question 24
pro tip: i've seen a lot of posting on Manhattan about concern over copyright infringement, specifically about people posting the stimuli word for word -- you should probably remove it since everyone here probably has the test nearby.
anyway, when i took this PT, i got it right by using the method i'm about to explain, but was still a little confused. so, during review, i tried to better understand it by reading the forums on Manhattan, only to be more confused than I was when i started (probably because they were trying to explain it with formal logic). For questions like this, where formal logic applies but makes it much more complicated than it needs to be, i think it's best to ditch it altogether. Try your hardest to focus on the key points in the stimulus and disregard the BS.
anyway, regarding the problem itself, it's best to focus on these key points:
1) 40,000 seals exist currently
2) they were reused after being opened
the stimulus then takes these two concepts and somehow concludes that the number of letters that these 40,000 seals were affixed to significantly trumps the number of seals that exist today. With this in mind, before you even get to the answer choices, the only way that this can happen is if most or all of these seals were at one point affixed to documents that were opened (thus forcing them ALL to be reused and significantly increasing the number of letters themselves). This is exactly what answer choice (A) says.
anyway, when i took this PT, i got it right by using the method i'm about to explain, but was still a little confused. so, during review, i tried to better understand it by reading the forums on Manhattan, only to be more confused than I was when i started (probably because they were trying to explain it with formal logic). For questions like this, where formal logic applies but makes it much more complicated than it needs to be, i think it's best to ditch it altogether. Try your hardest to focus on the key points in the stimulus and disregard the BS.
anyway, regarding the problem itself, it's best to focus on these key points:
1) 40,000 seals exist currently
2) they were reused after being opened
the stimulus then takes these two concepts and somehow concludes that the number of letters that these 40,000 seals were affixed to significantly trumps the number of seals that exist today. With this in mind, before you even get to the answer choices, the only way that this can happen is if most or all of these seals were at one point affixed to documents that were opened (thus forcing them ALL to be reused and significantly increasing the number of letters themselves). This is exactly what answer choice (A) says.
