GWD-8-Q31: GWD-2-12’

Which of the following most logically completes the argument?

Yorco and Zortech are two corporations that employ large numbers of full-time workers who are paid by the hour.  Publicly available records indicate that Yorco employs roughly the same number of such hourly wage workers as Zortech does but spends a far higher total sum per year on wages for such workers.  Therefore, hourly wages must be higher, on average, at Yorco than at Zortech, since _____.

1. Zortech spends a higher total sum per year than Yorco does to provide its hourly wage workers with benefits other than wages

2. the work performed by hourly wage workers at Zortech does not require a significantly higher level of skill than the work performed by hourly wage workers at Yorco does

3. the proportion of all company employees who are hourly wage workers is significantly greater at Yorco than it is at Zortech

4. overtime work, which is paid at a substantially higher rate than work done during the regular work week, is rare at both Yorco and Zortech

5. the highest hourly wages paid at Yorco are higher than the highest hourly wages paid at Zortech

请问这道题为什么选d啊？

时间乘以每小时工资等于总工资：

2个公司雇员数差不多，工作时间差不多（D选项），所以总工资数额高很多的每小时工资高很多。

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-1-5 8:01:31编辑过]

Total pay=hourly rate X hours

If hours are same in Y and Z, and Y paid higher in total, the hourly rate in Y should be higher than it in Z. However, if there is overtime work, the hours are not same, and the overtime rate should be higher than the regular rate. Therefore, the conclusion that Y's hourly rate is higher than Z's can only be reached only if there is rare overtime work in both Y and Z.