Q23 - A new kind of videocassette

[esnanees]

I understand why D is correct but i don't understand why C is incorrect. Is it because it can't serve as conclusion?

thanks a lot.

[griffin.811]

I understand why D is correct but i don't understand why C is incorrect. Is it because it can't serve as conclusion?

thanks a lot.

There are a few things wrong with C:

1. Its out of scope. We dont know what portion rental price paid to the store goes to royalties, because we are not told this information. We only have info about the the cost to the store to use movies. We know the majority of the fee paid by the STORE to use a movie is to cover the royalties. who knows, maybe most of the money customers spend on rentals goes to supporting the building's rent and they fundraise to cover the royalties. (although not likely, a fair possibility)

2. If we put that at the end of the premise, it doesn't make much sense.

The price that stores pay per copy would decrease by considerably less than 5%...Therefore (insert C, then D).

HTH

[rinagoldfield]

Griffin.811, great explanation of C.

Anna never explicitly states her conclusion; our job in Question 23 is to identify one that would logically follow her statement. Anna’s statement contains two key pieces of information:

1. Videocassettes account for only 5% of the price video rental stores pay to buy a movie.
2. Royalties account for most of the price video rental stores pay to buy a movie.

It logically follows that Anna disagrees with Tony. In other words, she doubts that video rental stores will save much (or any) money by purchasing cheap videocassettes that need to be frequently replaced. (D) exactly matches this.

There are a few things wrong with C:

1. Its out of scope. We dont know what portion rental price paid to the store goes to royalties, because we are not told this information. We only have info about the the cost to the store to use movies. We know the majority of the fee paid by the STORE to use a movie is to cover the royalties. who knows, maybe most of the money customers spend on rentals goes to supporting the building's rent and they fundraise to cover the royalties. (although not likely, a fair possibility)

Yes. (C) is out of scope. We are concerned with the price paid by the video rental STORE, not the price paid by the video rental CUSTOMER.

(A) offers an extreme opinion; we don’t know whether or not Anna believes royalty fees to be too large.
(B) is unsupported. Anna’s argument concerns price, not quality.
(E) is out of scope. We don’t know anything about the price paid by customers to rent movies, or the relationship between this price and the price paid by video stores to buy movies.

[natalie.seni]

When first seeing this question in my drills I got very confused with how to approach it and what my task is supposed to be. Upon looking at the posts here, I'm even more confused.

The question stem says, "Which one of the following, if true, would contribute most to a defense of Tony's position against Anna's reply?"

Rina above stated that we need to logically complete Anna's argument. But I interpreted this question stem to mean that we need to strenghten Tony's argument about it being more economical for rental stores to purchase stock movies on the new videocasettes - by addressing Anna's reply.

Can someone please shed light on this? This particular question has me very lost. Thanks!

[rinagoldfield]

Hi Natalie,

Thanks for your question. The question stem you are referring to (what would contribute to Tony's defense) is the question stem for Question 24. This thread is about Question 23.

Best,
Rina