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[lgao1]

Half of the students in Jaime’s class are on the volleyball team, and all of the students in Jaime’s class make up half of the students in the school.

We can infer:

The students in Jaime’s class who are on the volleyball team represent one quarter of the students in the school.

Or

One quarter of the students in the school are on the volleyball team.


I chose the former because it sounded weaker than the latter, which is usually good for infer questions? But I can't see any difference between the two situations.

[noah]

Half of the students in Jaime’s class are on the volleyball team, and all of the students in Jaime’s class make up half of the students in the school.

We can infer:

The students in Jaime’s class who are on the volleyball team represent one quarter of the students in the school.

Or

One quarter of the students in the school are on the volleyball team.


I chose the former because it sounded weaker than the latter, which is usually good for infer questions? But I can't see any difference between the two situations.

Tough question you're asking about!

Take a look at this:

Half of my clothes are red, and my clothes represent half the clothes in the house.

Does this mean that:

(A) my red clothes represent 1/4 of the clothes in the house

(B) 1/4 of the clothes in the house are red

We can not infer (B) since we don't know about all the clothes that are not mine. Maybe my wife only had red clothes, in which case 3/4 of the clothes in the house would be red.

Back to Jaime's class, we know that the v-ball players in Jaime's class represent 1/4 of the school, but we don't know if only 1/4 of the school are on the volleyball team. Perhaps EVERYONE in all the other classes are on the volleyball team.

Make sense?