Due to budget constraints for the upcoming year, the corporate office

Due to budget constraints for the upcoming year, the corporate office of the Super Video chain has elected to reduce the amount of advertising funding it provides to individual chain stores in rural areas. To offset this loss in advertising funding, the manager of one such store, Store 123, has elected to raise late fees from $2.00 per day to $2.50 per day. Despite the fee increase, the store manager has not seen a reduction in the number of videos returned late. The manager has concluded that the late fee increase will help to offset the cut in company funding.

Which of the following statements, if true, most strengthens the manager’s claim?


A. Since the late fee increase, salespeople at Store 123 have noticed a drop in sales of used DVDs and VHS tapes.

B. Store 123 had to spend a small amount of its monthly advertising budget to let customers know about the new late fee.

C. Store 123 is part of Super Video’s corporate video tracking system, which allows Store 123 to know exactly how many videos are overdue in real time.

D. Since the advertising budget reduction, Store 123 has had to lay off one salesperson, reducing costs by ten percent.

E. Since the fee increase, the average number of days a video is late has not changed.