Melanie, an administrative assistant with ABC Pharmaceuticals, is planning to take a long cruise through the Caribbean, using all of her accumulated vacation time. She has worked at ABC for two years, and is entitled to three weeks of vacation at this time. All non-senior management employees at ABC are entitled to two weeks of vacation each year, but can use any unused vacation time from previous years.
If all of the preceding information is true, then which of the following must be true?
A)Melanie is considered senior management.
B)Melanie did not use one week of her vacation time last year.
C)Melanie did not take a vacation last year.
D)ABC Pharmaceuticals regularly grants extra vacation time for their top employees.
E)Next year Melanie will only be allowed to take one week of vacation.

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It is true that Melanie did not use one week of her paid vacation in a previous year. Melanie is entitled to two weeks of vacation each year, as she is not senior management. She is taking a three-week vacation, however, and so must have earned an extra week somehow. Based on the above paragraph, the only way she could have earned it was from holding over vacation time from a previous year.

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