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The answer is C . The OA is wrong.
Here is a better discussion on the same question.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/community-ac ... 81304.html
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07tiger Not exactly. As I mentioned above, this is a flawed rewrite of the question you're linking to. In this case, C is *not* correct, nor is anything else!
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07tiger Not exactly. As I mentioned above, this is a flawed rewrite of the question you're linking to. In this case, C is *not* correct, nor is anything else!

DmitryFarber I agree. (I selected C because that is the closest I could get keeping general structures of GMAT questions in mind.) However this question should be taken off.
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the original question is something totally different from this there C is justified as it is an evaluation assistance option question.
i am not sure flipping the question like this for a strengthen question will still give E) as the right answer.
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Poor quality quesion.

From GPT o3:
Correct answer: B

B. A large percentage of the residents of Venicelpark currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Venicelpark.

Why (B) strengthens the activist’s case
The activist’s reasoning is:

Historical pattern: In other towns, when a SaveAll opened on the outskirts, the central district soon lost many stores to bankruptcy.

Prediction/Conclusion: The same harm will occur in Venicelpark; therefore the town should block SaveAll to keep its downtown healthy.

For that causal prediction to be convincing, we must believe that shoppers who now sustain downtown merchants would instead shift their spending to the new SaveAll. Choice (B) gives precisely that missing link:

If most Venicelpark residents already shop locally—i.e., at the very downtown stores whose health the activist wants to protect—then a huge discount outlet on the edge of town would likely siphon off that same customer base.

That parallels the scenario in the “other small towns” and makes it more plausible that the downtown area in Venicelpark would suffer the same high bankruptcy rate.

Hence (B) directly supports the activist’s causal claim and the recommendation to prevent the store’s opening.

Why the other choices do not strengthen the argument
Choice Effect on the argument
A Community activists elsewhere “affirmed the opening” of SaveAll stores. Whether activists tried (successfully or not) to block stores in other towns says nothing about whether those stores harmed downtown business. No causal link is added.
C Even healthy districts normally have some bankruptcies. This undercuts the activist by suggesting a baseline level of failure independent of SaveAll, or at best it’s neutral—doesn’t show SaveAll causes unusual harm.
D SaveAll will hire local employees. Downtown decline is about lost customers, not hiring. Local employment at SaveAll could even soften the blow, so this does nothing (and might weaken the claim).
E SaveAll itself rarely loses money. That’s about SaveAll’s profitability, not about the downtown merchants’ viability; it provides no support for the activist’s worry about central-district bankruptcies.

Because only (B) supplies key evidence that the conditions in Venicelpark mirror those towns where downtown businesses failed—making the causal prediction far more credible—it is the option that most strongly strengthens the activist’s argument.
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