E has no effect on the plan

I have chosen the answer E for this question:

A. Revenue losses would be extremely important to know. The reason is because if this boycott affects Gasco's revenue, they would probably be more inclined to deal with the situation and possibly submit to the conditions of the union's proposal. If it doesn't affect the revenue, then the union would have to find some other approach to put pressure on the company. Therefore, this answer choice is relevant.

B. If gas can easily be obtained elsewhere, this would likely make the boycott fail because consumers could go somewhere else very easily. If gas cannot be easily obtained, then this approach would definitely affect the company.

C. There seems to be a lot of questions concerning this answer choice. The way I interpreted it was that if other miners' unions won contracts, then their proposal is fair and Coalco would be see that their conditions aren't outrageous. Also, if the contracts are similar, it means that other companies have caved to these same conditions and Coalco is probably willing to do the same in order to avoid additional pressure.

D. This is obviously important because if previous tactics have worked, then there is no reason that they should not again. This knowledge tells us the likelihood of these tactics succeeding.

E. This answer choice is least relevant because we are not concerned whether coal companies also own gas companies. For example, say we choose the answer "yes" to this question. Would this tell us any additional information? How about if we chose the answer "no?" Answers to either of these questions would not be beneficial to the leaders of the miners' union.

The reason why C is relevant is not simply that it is a "precedent" for the contract. It has to be relevant to the question of whether attempting to organize a consumer boycott would work or not. C is relevant to this question because it will be easier to convince consumers to support a boycott if other, similar unions have similar contracts. If this contract is very different from other contracts for similar unions, it will be harder to persuade consumers to go along with it. B is relevant for basically the same reason: It affects whether consumers are likely to (in the case of B, whether they are even ABLE to!) support it.
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i am trying to understand what type of CR this is
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I don't think that this is a strengthen question..

It , in my opinion, is a reverse/negative evaluate question.. very rare are these type of questions
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boycot causes accepting
do x then y happen.

prethink:
assumption is there is no bad agent
strengthener is: there is no bad agent

go to answer choices, eliminate the choice which can show the strenghthener.

E is left.

because the prethink dose not need to be exactly, I make simple prethinking. This is also helpful.

pls comment of my above process.