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Question

A recent study seems to suggest that, contrary to popular perception, vocational and technical programs do a better job of preparing their students for the workforce than traditional four-year colleges do. This study indicated that just below 60 percent of vocational and technical school graduates found full-time employment within two years of graduation, whereas only 50 percent of those who graduated from four-year colleges did. Nevertheless, the study's official conclusion was that four-year colleges are in fact better at preparing their students for the workforce than are vocational and technical programs. Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy between the study's findings and its official conclusion? (A) Presidents and trustees of four-year colleges work to shape public perceptions of their institutions. (B) The study investigated a wide variety of both four-year colleges and vocational and technical programs over a period of a decade. (C) Most graduates of vocational and technical programs who find employment within two years of graduation work in the professions for which they were trained. (D) Increased demand for health care workers, nearly all of whom attend schools that were classified by the study as vocational, caused the employment rate among graduates of these schools to exceed 90 percent. (E) More than 20 percent of the graduates of four-year colleges go on to professional schools that require more than two year.