Jennifer: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993. The decline in rentals was probably due almost entirely to the February 1994 opening of Videorama, the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.
Brad: There must be another explanation: as you yourself said, the decline was on the order of 10,000 rentals. Yet Videorama sold only 4,000 videos in 1994.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the force of the objection that Brad presents to Jennifer's explanation?
Jennifer: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993. The decline in rentals was probably due almost entirely to the February 1994 opening of Videorama, the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.
Brad: There must be another explanation: as you yourself said, the decline was on the order of 10,000 rentals. Yet Videorama sold only 4,000 videos in 1994.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the force of the objection that Brad presents to Jennifer's explanation?
AIn 1994 Videorama rented out more videos than it sold. 分析A选项
BIn 1994 two new outlets that rent but that do not sell videos opened in Centerville. 分析B选项
CMost of the video rental outlets in Centerville rent videos at a discount on certain nights of the week. 分析C选项
DPeople often buy videos of movies that they have previously seen in a theater. 分析D选项
EPeople who own videos frequently loan them to their friends. 分析E选项
我觉得题目意思是说C这个地方的整个video出租量都下降了, Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993. The decline in rentals was probably due almost entirely to ,V的出租量本来就包含在整个出租量里边,A是没有意义的。那么整个行业的出租量下降是因为是什么呢,选E
杯uu 发表于 2016-9-2 16:05
我觉得题目意思是说C这个地方的整个video出租量都下降了, Video rental outlets in Centerville together ...
同意!
而且J的观点里也强调了新开的Videorama是在C这个地区的,所以减少的10000里也包括Videorama的rentals
.....due almost entirely to the February 1994 opening of Videorama, the first and only video rental outlet in the area that, in addition to renting videos, also sold them cheaply.
搬一个ron神的解释,非常清晰!膜拜大神
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as with all other Weaken problems, you should SIMPLIFY THE ARGUMENT first.
here's the simplified argument:
J: The loss of 10,000 rentals was all Videorama's fault.
B: That's not possible, since Videorama only sold 4000 videos.
in other words, brad's objection is based on the fact that 4000 is a smaller number than 10,000.
to WEAKEN brad's objection, you have to COME UP WITH A WAY FOR 4000 SALES TO CANCEL OUT 10,000 RENTALS.
(a) is irrelevant to this issue.
(e) provides a perfect reason why the 4000 sales could, indeed, compensate for the 10,000 rentals: if the sold videos are loaned around, then each of them could cancel out multiple rentals.
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