Critical Reasoning

In the course of her researches, a historian recently found two documents mentioning the same person, Erich Schnitzler. One, dated May 3, 1739, is a record of Schnitzler’s arrest for peddling without a license. The second, undated, is a statement by Schnitzler asserting that he has been peddling off and on for 20 years.
The facts above best support which of the following conclusions?

(A) Schnitzler started peddling around 1719.
(B) Schnitzler was arrested repeatedly for peddling.
(C) The undated document was written before 1765.
(D) The arrest record was written after the undated document.
(E) The arrest record provides better evidence that Schnitzler peddled than does the undated document.

IMO C

Mani_mba wrote:In the course of her researches, a historian recently found two documents mentioning the same person, Erich Schnitzler. One, dated May 3, 1739, is a record of Schnitzler’s arrest for peddling without a license. The second, undated, is a statement by Schnitzler asserting that he has been peddling off and on for 20 years.
The facts above best support which of the following conclusions?

(A) Schnitzler started peddling around 1719.
(B) Schnitzler was arrested repeatedly for peddling.
(C) The undated document was written before 1765.
(D) The arrest record was written after the undated document.
(E) The arrest record provides better evidence that Schnitzler peddled than does the undated document.

IMO C or E

but will pick C

in 1739, he was arrested. Take a case wherhe he started pedalling in 1739.. so the 2nd document might havee been written in 1759..

In the course of her researches, a historian recently found two documents mentioning the same person, Erich Schnitzler. One, dated May 3, 1739, is a record of Schnitzler’s arrest for peddling without a license. The second, undated, is a statement by Schnitzler asserting that he has been peddling off and on for 20 years.
The facts above best support which of the following conclusions?

(A) Schnitzler started peddling around 1719. (cannot say for sure, this is a maybe case - 1719 or 1759)
(B) Schnitzler was arrested repeatedly for peddling. (not stated in the argument; there is evidence of only one arrest)
(C) The undated document was written before 1765. (keep)
(D) The arrest record was written after the undated document. (Maybe hence out)
(E) The arrest record provides better evidence that Schnitzler peddled than does the undated document. (the arrest record is oficial and dated hence this is definitely a better evidence than Schnitzler's statement

I will have to go for E, becuse it is more certain than C

Please post OA

IMO E

OA Plz??

IMO C

what is OA for this?

OA is C.

Hi Mani,

Could you please let me know where you got this question from and if possible also paste the solution

Thanks

I just found only answer keys not explanations. I took this question from one of GMAT paper test pdfs.

Mani_mba wrote:In the course of her researches, a historian recently found two documents mentioning the same person, Erich Schnitzler. One, dated May 3, 1739, is a record of Schnitzler’s arrest for peddling without a license. The second, undated, is a statement by Schnitzler asserting that he has been peddling off and on for 20 years.
The facts above best support which of the following conclusions?

(A) Schnitzler started peddling around 1719.
(B) Schnitzler was arrested repeatedly for peddling.
(C) The undated document was written before 1765.
(D) The arrest record was written after the undated document.
(E) The arrest record provides better evidence that Schnitzler peddled than does the undated document.

I thought this was E because it is more probable (official record vs a statement). Not sure why this is C but let me think this through... if the undated doc was written at the same time ES was arrested, the doc would have been written before 1759. However, if he wrote the statement 20 years before, he would have written it in 1719. Difference between 1765 and 1719 is 46 years...

...can anyone else explain why it is C? I've gone and confused myself!!

Let me share this agony here: whatever tough the question is, you will find a discussion on beatthegmat but for most of the unexplained answers this is the worst place...what the hell moderators are doing here, why so many open question on tougher end and lot of answer for easy one...
second all this IMO c guys are what to say I dont have good word for them...

this is a very nice q and i too seriously looking for logical answer...can somebody do that

Just noticed someone has done some half hearted excercise and closed the thread here:https://www.beatthegmat.com/here-is-a-good-one-t653.html
https://www.beatthegmat.com/here-is-a-good-one-t653.html

maihuna wrote:Let me share this agony here: whatever tough the question is, you will find a discussion on beatthegmat but for most of the unexplained answers this is the worst place...what the hell moderators are doing here, why so many open question on tougher end and lot of answer for easy one...
second all this IMO c guys are what to say I dont have good word for them...

this is a very nice q and i too seriously looking for logical answer...can somebody do that

Alrite mai hu na,

Lets see if this satisfies you:

There can be only 2 cases here:
1] either he started peddling in 1739
2] or, he started peddling before 1739

for 1] the document, would be from 1759, which is before 1765.
for 2] the document definitely has to be from an year before 1765. In fact, it has to be from an year before 1759.

Clear C.

This is such an easy question....i was too scared to opt C.
this jus dint look like a typical GMAT CR :- (

Anyways....I am going for C for the same explnation give above.