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knight9514

Please help! I found two different answers for following questions from different books. Please tell me which one is the correct answer. Thank you very much!!

Critical Reasoning:

1. A mail order company recently had a big jump in clothing sales after hiring a compy wirter and a graphic artist to give its clothing catalog a magazinelike format designed to appeal to a more upscale clientele.  The company is now planning to launch a housewares catalog using the same concept.
The company's plan assumes that

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B.an upscale clientele would be interested in a houwares catalog
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D.a magazinelike format requires a copywirter and a graphic artist.
Which one is the correct answer???

2. Television programing experts maintain that with each 1% increase in teh prime-time ratings of a television station there is a 3.5% increase in the number of people who watch its evening news program.  However, in the last ten years at Channel NTR, there was only one year of extremely high preime-time ratings and during that year, fewer people than ever watched Channel NTR's evening news program.Which of the following conclusions can properly be drawn from the statements above?

C.The year of high ratings at NTR was a result of two hit show which were subsequently cancelled because of contractual problems

E. Prime-time ratings are not the only factor affecting how many people watch an evening news program.

Which one is the correct answer???

Thank you for the help!!

chipmunk

1. (b)
2. (e)

1stzhang

我觉得第一题选D;第二题比较典型选E