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Which of the following best completes the passage below?  [#permalink] New post 21 Jun 2004, 01:22
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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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 [#permalink] New post 21 Jun 2004, 05:23
E it is
Sentence means that before even considering user-friendliness and ease of use, consumers have to determine if they should even buy one.
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 [#permalink] New post 21 Jun 2004, 07:10
I agree with E.

First, byers consider reasons for buying a computer [why they need one], and only then evaluate it on the basis of how simple it is to operate one.
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 [#permalink] New post 21 Jun 2004, 07:35
E it is for me also.
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Re: CR_2_4 [#permalink] New post 21 Jun 2004, 09:20
E for me.
oddly premature and irrelevant indicate that the buyers are looking beyond userfriendliness. E states the logical priority that buyers are evaluating b4 buying a PC
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 [#permalink] New post 21 Jun 2004, 15:59
E.
Look for "logically prior issue".
The rest still talk about user-friendliness.
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Re: CR_2_4 [#permalink] New post 21 Jun 2004, 18:36
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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

Explanation please.


would go with E.
A) "..emphasized on ease of use.." this doesn't suggest whether the PCs are easily serviceable. A is out
B) noone is talking of the cost. too narrow. out.
C) until one start using the PC, one won't get an idea what actually is required. there is no point of reference with which new models can be compared. out.
D) this is out of question.
E) yes, one to one relation. time/cost trade-off.
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 [#permalink] New post 22 Jun 2004, 00:52
OA is E.

You guys are too good! I need to improve my CR skills! (As I said in one of my postings "Had a bad day with CR". I did this one also on that day itself!)
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