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Which of the following best completes the passage below?
Sales campaigns aimed at the faltering personal computer market have strongly emphasized ease of use, called user-friendliness. This emphasis is oddly premature and irrelevant in the eyes of most potential buyers, who are trying to address the logically prior issue of whether___________________________________.
(A) user-friendliness also implies that owners can service their own computers
(B) personal computers cost more the more user-friendly they are
(C) currently available models are user-friendly enough to suit them
(D) the people promoting personal computers use them in their own homes
(E) they have enough sensible uses for a personal computer to justify the expense of buying one
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stolyar wrote: Which of the following best completes the passage below?
Sales campaigns aimed at the faltering personal computer market have strongly emphasized ease of use, called user-friendliness. This emphasis is oddly premature and irrelevant in the eyes of most potential buyers, who are trying to address the logically prior issue of whether___________________________________.
(A) user-friendliness also implies that owners can service their own computers
(B) personal computers cost more the more user-friendly they are
(C) currently available models are user-friendly enough to suit them
(D) the people promoting personal computers use them in their own homes
(E) they have enough sensible uses for a personal computer to justify the expense of buying one
throw out the book with such questions!
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the master denies to work...
Try to guess in this case
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Dmitry wrote: stolyar wrote: Which of the following best completes the passage below?
Sales campaigns aimed at the faltering personal computer market have strongly emphasized ease of use, called user-friendliness. This emphasis is oddly premature and irrelevant in the eyes of most potential buyers, who are trying to address the logically prior issue of whether___________________________________.
(A) user-friendliness also implies that owners can service their own computers
(B) personal computers cost more the more user-friendly they are
(C) currently available models are user-friendly enough to suit them
(D) the people promoting personal computers use them in their own homes
(E) they have enough sensible uses for a personal computer to justify the expense of buying one throw out the book with such questions! What's wrong? too hard/easy?
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Yup, looks like (E)
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It is hard for me
explain why E
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bb wrote: Dmitry wrote: stolyar wrote: Which of the following best completes the passage below?
Sales campaigns aimed at the faltering personal computer market have strongly emphasized ease of use, called user-friendliness. This emphasis is oddly premature and irrelevant in the eyes of most potential buyers, who are trying to address the logically prior issue of whether___________________________________.
(A) user-friendliness also implies that owners can service their own computers
(B) personal computers cost more the more user-friendly they are
(C) currently available models are user-friendly enough to suit them
(D) the people promoting personal computers use them in their own homes
(E) they have enough sensible uses for a personal computer to justify the expense of buying one throw out the book with such questions! What's wrong? too hard/easy? Hardness and easyness are not the problems. It is much worse when the CR question is not logical. As I guess is a case in this case.
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E because this is the only choice that appears to present a higher order issue for a customer of PCs, which will need to be addressed before she/he evaluates the user-friendliness of a PC.
Therefore, this is the only choice that fits in best with "... who are trying to address the logically prior issue of whether___________________________________. "
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I guess we should see a link friendliness = sensible uses
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The wording of the question implies that there is a possibility that the whole idea of "user-friendliness" is "premature" hence irrelevant. If a user has not yet determined whether there are any "uses" for the computer, the question of whether the computer is user-friendly or not is moot.
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AkamaiBrah wrote: The wording of the question implies that there is a possibility that the whole idea of "user-friendliness" is "premature" hence irrelevant. If a user has not yet determined whether there are any "uses" for the computer, the question of whether the computer is user-friendly or not is moot.
Bravo, Sir!
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E for me.
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elmagnifico wrote: E for me. Good E. Nice question!
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First you establish need for something and then, you make choices. Therefore, E.
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Good Q. Makes sense that it is indeed E. I ruled out A B D but ended up picking C because I got hooked on the irrelevant part. The oddly premature dominates the irrelevant piece.
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