“The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head. This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it! Isn’t it time for you to add power to your swing and distance to your drives? Trade in your old driver today — and HitItFar tomorrow!”
All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement EXCEPT:
A. Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play.
B. The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory.
C. Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club.
D. Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver.
E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers.
MANHATTAN GMAT OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:
As an advertisement, this passage attempts to entice the reader into purchasing a new HitItFar driver by touting its benefits, both implied or explicit. The key to answering this question is to be able to analyze each claim to determine whether it is implied, explicitly stated, or neither.
(A) By asking the reader rhetorically "isn't it time you added power ... and distance ... [by switching to the HitItFar driver]?", the advertisement implies that the use of the club will add "power ... and distance" and, hence, will improve one's play.
(B) CORRECT. The advertisement states that the 12 major championships winner have recently switched to the new driver. There is nothing in the passage to imply that any of them were using the driver at the time of their victories; hence, this claim is neither implied, nor made explicitly, in the passage.
(C) It is a reasonable assumption that professional golfers, particularly those skilled enough to win a major championship, are experts and know what constitutes a great club. The advertisement makes this implication and reinforces it by citing the recent decision of these golfers to switch to the HitItFar driver; this provides an implicit expert endorsement for the HitItFar driver.
(D) The point of the advertisement is to prompt the reader into purchasing a new driver to replace his or her old driver in order to "add power and distance"; this implies that the new driver is superior to the reader's existing driver.
(E) This claim is explicitly stated in the first sentence of the passage.