Ok. I understood that what we explained above does not hold on you. Ok let me try in a direct manner as usually I do
Jennifer: Video rental outlets in Centerville together handled 10,000 fewer video rentals in 1994 than in 1993.
Ok we do have a decrease in rental videos.
RENTALSThe 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.
Ok. maybe the cause is a new store in the area.
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.
Ok. Cannot be that specific and only a new store because it overall sold 4k. Notice how videorama sold videos but we are talking about rentals decline
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously
weaken the force of the objection that Brad presents to Jennifer's explanation?
(A) In 1994 Videorama rented out more videos than it sold.
We care about the 10k rentals decline ok ? videorama sold 4k video. Already we have a discrepancy. Moreover, we talk about that videorama rented more videos than sold. Now
1) The stem talks ONLY of the video sold by Videorama NOT a comparison about sold vs rented. Only for this A is off because is NOt the argument we want to weaken and is NOT what we can with certain to asses because from the argument we do not have a lot of information about sold vs rentals, if any
(B) In 1994 two new outlets that rent but that do not sell videos opened in Centerville.
Irrelevant whatsoever
(C) Most of the video rental outlets in Centerville rent videos at a discount on certain nights of the week.
Irrelevant. Does not tell us anything about the decline of 10k rentals
(D) People often buy videos of movies that they have previously seen in a theater.
Yes this weakens the argument and explain why we do have a decline of 10k: people do NOT rent a movie but buy them and this happens OFTEN
(E) People who own videos frequently loan them to their friends.
Irrelevant what people do on the second hand: buy first and then loan.
I hope now is clear
regards
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