Data InsightsTwo-Part Analysis

Free GMAT Two-Part Analysis Practice Question

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Columns: Order, Status, Expedited. Seven rows of order data.
OrderStatusExpedited
P1ApprovedYes
P2PendingYes
P3ApprovedNo
P4ApprovedYes
P5RejectedNo
P6ApprovedYes
P7PendingNo

The table lists seven purchase orders a procurement team handled this month, each with the order's approval status and whether it was flagged for expedited shipping. Using the table, identify how many of the seven orders carry an approved status, and, separately, identify how many of the orders that do not carry an approved status were flagged for expedited shipping. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Orders with an approved status: . Non-approved orders flagged for expedited shipping: .

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Answer & Explanation

Correct answer

1: 4 · 2: 1

First ask, count the orders whose Status reads Approved. Reading the Status column, P1, P3, P4, and P6 are Approved, so the count is 4. Second ask, restrict to the orders that are not approved, then read the Expedited column for those rows only. The non-approved orders are the Pending and Rejected ones, P2, P5, and P7. Of those three, only P2 is flagged Yes for expedited shipping, so the count is 1. The two reads are independent, the first counts a subset of the Status column and the second counts expedited flags within the disjoint non-approved subset, so neither answer can be recovered from the other.

Distractor 1 (the value 3) is the count of approved orders that are also expedited, P1, P4, and P6, a solver who answers the first ask with approved-and-expedited rather than all approved lands here; for the second ask it is the count of all three non-approved rows, P2, P5, and P7, ignoring the expedited filter. Distractor 2 (the value 2) is the count of Pending orders, P2 and P7, a solver who treats only Pending as non-approved for the second ask and forgets to apply the expedited flag lands here. Distractor 3 (the value 5) arises for the first ask from counting approved orders, 4, and adding the single rejected order as if it too were released, and for the second ask from 4 expedited orders minus the lone approved non-expedited miscount. Distractor 4 (the value 6) arises for the first ask from counting every order that is not rejected, the 4 approved plus the 2 pending, treating not-rejected as approved.

The correct first ask is 4 and the correct second ask is 1, each unique in the pool.