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baseball team - home run

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brij.jhu
 Post subject: baseball team - home run
 Post Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:11 pm 
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A certain baseball team has just completed its season. In stadiums that seat 20,000 or fewer people, the team averaged 1 home run per game; in stadiums that seat between 20,000 and 40,000 people, the team averaged 2 home runs per game; and, in stadiums that seat 40,000 or more people, the team averaged 3 home runs per game. Obviously, the excitement of playing in front of large crowds motivated the team to hit more home runs.

Assuming that all stadiums during the season were filled to capacity, which of the following, if true, most undermines the argument above?

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The answer here totally depends on the test-taker's prior knowledge of what a 'home-run' is - a straight hit out of the bounds. The given correct answer here is :
In order to create seating for the additional fans, the outfield walls in the larger stadiums were constructed closer to home base.

I hope this is NOT a standard GMAT question
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edyong
 Post subject: Re: baseball team - home run
 Post Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:04 am 
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I agree, i had this question wrong because I don't have any knowledge regarding baseball.
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: baseball team - home run
 Post Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:04 am 
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brij.jhu wrote:
A certain baseball team has just completed its season. In stadiums that seat 20,000 or fewer people, the team averaged 1 home run per game; in stadiums that seat between 20,000 and 40,000 people, the team averaged 2 home runs per game; and, in stadiums that seat 40,000 or more people, the team averaged 3 home runs per game. Obviously, the excitement of playing in front of large crowds motivated the team to hit more home runs.

Assuming that all stadiums during the season were filled to capacity, which of the following, if true, most undermines the argument above?

>>

The answer here totally depends on the test-taker's prior knowledge of what a 'home-run' is - a straight hit out of the bounds. The given correct answer here is :
In order to create seating for the additional fans, the outfield walls in the larger stadiums were constructed closer to home base.

I hope this is NOT a standard GMAT question


heh. yeah, you won't have to worry about this sort of thing on the exam.

we'll do something about that.
thanks.
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christiancryan
 Post subject: Re: baseball team - home run
 Post Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:45 pm 
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We've taken this problem out of the CAT pool for rehab. Thanks for alerting us to the issue.
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