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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-003
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Inference
Difficulty level: Medium

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Last spring Halvard Airport opened a second check-in hall, doubling the number of check-in desks available to departing passengers. The airport handles about the same number of departing passengers each day as it did before, and a desk still takes about as long to check in one passenger as it did before. Yet the average (arithmetic mean) time a passenger spends waiting in the check-in queue has risen from nine minutes to fourteen.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the increase in average waiting time?

AThe charge for parking in the airport's short-stay car park rose by 10 percent last spring.

BThe new check-in hall is at the far end of the terminal, and some passengers have trouble finding it.

CSeveral airlines have added early-morning departures from Halvard, and the passengers on those flights reach the desks well before the airport's busiest hours begin.

DPassengers now arrive later, so a far larger share of each day's passengers reaches the desks within the airport's two busiest hours.

EPassengers now walk considerably farther from the check-in desks to their departure gates than they did before the second hall opened.

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