Free GMAT Critical Reasoning Practice Question

Separate the evidence from the claim it supports. The director cites two figures: attendance on free Sundays runs roughly four times higher than on a typical paid Sunday, and the gift shop and cafe report their busiest sales of the month on those same Sundays. From these two figures the director draws a summary judgment: the free-admission program brings in far more visitors and boosts in-house spending. That judgment is choice D.

Choice A states the free-admission policy itself, the premise that sets up the whole argument, not the claim the figures are used to prove. Choice B is the four-times attendance figure, one of the two numbers the director cites as evidence rather than the conclusion drawn from it. Choice C is the busiest-sales figure, the second piece of evidence, sitting alongside the attendance number rather than summarizing what it proves. Choice E is a sweeping recommendation for museums everywhere, which goes well beyond the argument; the director claims only that this museum's program works, not that every museum should adopt one. So the answer is D.