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In order to promote off-season business, Hotel Victoria Jungfrau made the following "Frequent Special” offer to their winter guests: guests who rent a room for at least a week during the ski season can come back during the summer and get 25% off the standard summer price of any room they rent. After the summer passed, the owners of the lodge determined that the majority of their guests had taken advantage of the "Frequent Special” offer and paid the reduced rates. However, they were surprised to find they still managed to rent more rooms at full price than they did at the discount rate. Which of the following is true, most helps to explain discrepancy in the passage?

A

Most of the guests who stayed at Hotel Victoria Jungfrau during the winter did not stay for a full week.

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Those guests taking advantage of the "Frequent Special” discount were more likely to bring their families with them than were those guests who were playing full price.

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Some of the guests who received the "Frequent Special” discount also receive a 10% rate reduction through their auto club.

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In order to pay for the construction for a new gymnasium and a new pool, the owners of the lodge raise their summer prices considerably.

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The correct option is B

Those guests taking advantage of the "Frequent Special” discount were more likely to bring their families with them than were those guests who were playing full price.


Here's the discrepancy we're asked to resolve. How can it be that most winter guests availed themselves of discounted pricing, yet the lodge nevertheless rented more rooms at full price? Clearly it's a numerical mystery, which will require a numerical solution. (b) provides such an answer: if the discounted folks were comprised mainly of families, packing in more guests per room, while the full-priced guests tended to come solo with fewer guests per room, then it's easier to explain how there could be lots of discounted guests wandering around the hotel but more rooms rented as full price. (b) Wins.

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