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Advertisement: In today’s world, you make a statement about the person you are by the car you own. The message of the SKX Mach-5 is unambiguous: Its owner is Dynamic, Aggressive, and Successful. Shouldn’t you own an SKX Mach-5?

If the claims made in the advertisement are true, which one of the following must also be true on the basis of them?

(A) Anyone who is dynamic and aggressive is also successful.

(B) Anyone who is not both dynamic and successful would misrepresent himself or herself by being the owner of an SKX Mach-5.

(C) People who buy the SKX Mach-5 are usually more aggressive than people who buy other cars.

(D) No car other than the SKX Mach-5 announces that its owner is successful.

(E) Almost no one would fail to recognize the kind of person who would choose to own an SKX Mach-5.

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Re: Advertisement: In today’s world, you make a statement about the person [#permalink] New post   13 Apr 2021, 09:30
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Advertisement: In today’s world, you make a statement about the person you are by the car you own. The message of the SKX Mach-5 is unambiguous: Its owner is Dynamic, Aggressive, and Successful. Shouldn’t you own an SKX Mach-5?

If the claims made in the advertisement are true, which one of the following must also be true on the basis of them?

(A) Anyone who is dynamic and aggressive is also successful.

(B) Anyone who is not both dynamic and successful would misrepresent himself or herself by being the owner of an SKX Mach-5.

(C) People who buy the SKX Mach-5 are usually more aggressive than people who buy other cars.

(D) No car other than the SKX Mach-5 announces that its owner is successful.

(E) Almost no one would fail to recognize the kind of person who would choose to own an SKX Mach-5.

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(A) No. Dynamic, aggressive, and successful are presented as independent characteristics.

(B) Yes. The statement “The message of the SKX Mach-5 is unambiguous: Its owner is Dynamic, Aggressive, and Successful” contains an embedded if-then statement: If you own an SKX Mach-5, then you are Dynamic, Aggressive, and Successful. So if you own an SKX Mach-5 and are not both Dynamic and Successful, you would be misrepresenting yourself.

(C) No. The passage does not make any comparisons between people who buy the SKX and people who buy other cars.

(D) No. No other cars are mentioned.

(E) No. This cannot be determined from what is stated in the passage.
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Re: Advertisement: In today’s world, you make a statement about the person [#permalink] New post   24 Jan 2020, 04:01
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If your car expresses your personality, and an SKX-Mach owner is dynamic and successful, then someone not dynamic and successful would be misrepresenting their personality by owning an SKX-Mach. So B is right.
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Re: Advertisement: In today’s world, you make a statement about the person [#permalink] New post   30 Jan 2020, 15:26
Someone needs to have all three characteristics ( aggressive , successful and dynamic )


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Re: Advertisement: In todays world, you make a statement about the person [#permalink] New post   31 Aug 2022, 22:48
Why is D incorrect? The tagline in the ad is "Shouldn't you own XYZ?" What if there is some other vehicle that is a better indicator of success? The tagline won't make sense in that case
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Re: Advertisement: In todays world, you make a statement about the person [#permalink] New post   31 Aug 2022, 23:50
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Sure, but our job is not to prove the tagline, especially since it is only a question. This is an inference question, so our job is to believe the claims and see which answer they make correct. We don't know that this car is the only one that sends the signal in question. Besides, even if it were the only car that signaled "dynamic, aggressive, and successful," there might be many cars that just signaled "successful."
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