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Fact 1: Television advertising is becoming less effective: [#permalink]
 05 May 2008, 18:13
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Fact 1: Television advertising is becoming less effective: the proportion of brand names promoted on television that viewers of the advertising can recall is slowly decreasing.
Fact 2: Television viewers recall commercials aired first or last in a cluster of consecutive commercials far better than they recall commercials aired somewhere in the middle.
Fact 2 would be most likely to contribute to an explanation of fact 1 if which of the following were also true?
(A) The average television viewer currently recalls fewer than half the brand names promoted in commercials he or she saw.
(B) The total time allotted to the average cluster of consecutive television commercials is decreasing.
(C) The average number of hours per day that people spend watching television is decreasing.
(D) The average number of clusters of consecutive commercials per hour of television is increasing.
(E) The average number of television commercials in a cluster of consecutive commercials is increasing.
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
05 May 2008, 18:39
E for me.
(E) The average number of television commercials in a cluster of consecutive commercials is increasing.
With more television commercials in a given span of time, it is harder for viewers to remember anything other than the first or last commercial.
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
05 May 2008, 20:07
Agree with E. The more ads in the cluster - the more the likelyhood of consumer not remembering the ones in the middle.
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
05 May 2008, 20:10
saravalli wrote: Fact 1: Television advertising is becoming less effective: the proportion of brand names promoted on television that viewers of the advertising can recall is slowly decreasing.
Fact 2: Television viewers recall commercials aired first or last in a cluster of consecutive commercials far better than they recall commercials aired somewhere in the middle.
Fact 2 would be most likely to contribute to an explanation of fact 1 if which of the following were also true?
(A) The average television viewer currently recalls fewer than half the brand names promoted in commercials he or she saw.
(B) The total time allotted to the average cluster of consecutive television commercials is decreasing.
(C) The average number of hours per day that people spend watching television is decreasing.
(D) The average number of clusters of consecutive commercials per hour of television is increasing.
(E) The average number of television commercials in a cluster of consecutive commercials is increasing. E If the number of commercials increased during the interval, then mid-commercials increase, then people would remember less...;thus, fact 2 contributes to fact 1
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
06 May 2008, 11:01
I say E as well
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
06 May 2008, 11:13
E
The proportion is decreasing.
People remember the first and the last. If you add more in the middle that will decrease the proportion.
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
06 May 2008, 12:07
i'd go with E as well..more commercials in a cluster..less likely hood of people remembering the ads in the middle.
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
06 May 2008, 16:27
Thanks guys. OA is E.
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Re: CR- average television.. [#permalink]
07 May 2008, 17:55
My answer choice is E.
Fact 2 can be true, if people’s attentive span decreases or the number of commercials aired during a cluster increase. In short Viewer’s recall is indirectly proportional to number of advertisements in a particular cluster.
A – Restates Fact 1 more precisely.
B – Actually contradicts Fact 1, sought of weaken the argument
C – Wild goose chase
D – Supports Fact 2, but remember in GMAT we have to choose the best answer.
E – The best and the correct answer.
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