Could use another eye on this GRE reading comp.

merper68
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:40:05 +0000

Well, the argument being made is that 65+ immigration is a reason for some of the population increase in Malton, right? And the justification is that there were more people who applied for 65+ benefits than people who were in the town the year before and supposed to turn 65 that year. To dismantle the argument that 65+ immigrants were the reason for the increase in benefits applications, you would have to find another source for the increase.

If Assumption D is the only one that’s false, then that just means that 65+ immigration was larger than than the 550 or so that applied for benefits. However, if assumption E is false, then the increase in application might just mean that people who were 66 or 67 finally got around to applying for benefits.