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Economics professor: Marty’s Pizza and Checkers Pizza are the two major pizza parlors in our town. Marty’s sold coupon books including coupons good for one large plain pizza at any local pizza parlor, at Marty’s expense. But Checkers refused to accept these coupons, even though they were redeemed by all other local pizza parlors. Accepting them would have cost Checkers nothing and would have satisfied those of its potential customers who had purchased the coupon books. This shows that Checkers’s motive in refusing to accept the coupons was simply to hurt Marty’s Pizza.
Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the economics professor’s conclusion to be properly drawn?
(A) Any company that refuses to accept coupons issued by a competitor when doing so would satisfy some of the company’s potential customers is motivated solely by the desire to hurt that competitor.
(B) Any company that wishes to hurt a competitor by refusing to accept coupons issued by that competitor will refuse to accept them even when accepting them would cost nothing and would satisfy its potential customers.
(C) At least one company has refused to accept coupons issued by its major local competitor simply in order to hurt that competitor, even though those coupons were accepted by all other local competitors.
(D) Any company that accepts its major competitor’s coupons helps its competitor by doing so, even if it also satisfies its own actual or potential customers.
(E) If accepting coupons issued by a competitor would not enable a company to satisfy its actual or potential customers, then that company’s refusal to accept the coupons is motivated by the desire to satisfy customers.
Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the economics professor’s conclusion to be properly drawn?
(A) Any company that refuses to accept coupons issued by a competitor when doing so would satisfy some of the company’s potential customers is motivated solely by the desire to hurt that competitor.
(B) Any company that wishes to hurt a competitor by refusing to accept coupons issued by that competitor will refuse to accept them even when accepting them would cost nothing and would satisfy its potential customers.
(C) At least one company has refused to accept coupons issued by its major local competitor simply in order to hurt that competitor, even though those coupons were accepted by all other local competitors.
(D) Any company that accepts its major competitor’s coupons helps its competitor by doing so, even if it also satisfies its own actual or potential customers.
(E) If accepting coupons issued by a competitor would not enable a company to satisfy its actual or potential customers, then that company’s refusal to accept the coupons is motivated by the desire to satisfy customers.
13 Nov 2019, 21:57
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"conclusion to be properly drawn" are LSAT questions. You need to separate out the premises, add the right option and see if you can properly draw the conclusion. So the correct option will be sufficient to draw the conclusion.
- Marty sold coupon books to customers (free pizza from any parlour)
- Checkers refused to accept these coupons.
- Accepting them would have cost Checkers nothing and would have satisfied those of its potential customers who had purchased the coupon books.
Conclusion: Checkers’s motive in refusing to accept the coupons was simply to hurt Marty’s Pizza.
There is a gap between premises and conclusion. The premises do not say anything about hurting. How does the conclusion conclude that Checkers wanted to hurt Marty's?
(A) Any company that refuses to accept coupons issued by a competitor when doing so would satisfy some of the company’s potential customers is motivated solely by the desire to hurt that competitor.
When a company refuses to accept coupons, it does so only because it wants to hurt the competitor. Now if this is also given in the premises, then we CAN conclude that Checkers motive was to hurt Marty's because that is the only motive one can have as per this new information.
For further clarity, lets add this to our list of premises and then see:
- Marty sold coupon books to customers (free pizza from any parlour)
- Checkers refused to accept these coupons.
- Accepting them would have cost Checkers nothing and would have satisfied those of its potential customers who had purchased the coupon books.
- When a company refuses to accept coupons, it does so only because it wants to hurt the competitor.
Now can I conclude that Checkers’s motive in refusing to accept the coupons was simply to hurt Marty’s Pizza? Yes. It makes sense.
(B) Any company that wishes to hurt a competitor by refusing to accept coupons issued by that competitor will refuse to accept them even when accepting them would cost nothing and would satisfy its potential customers.
This says "if a company wants to hurt a competitor ..."
But do we know whether Checkers wanted to hurt Marty's? No we don't know. This option tells us what a business will do when it wants to hurt a competitor. It doesn't say that the only reason a business would refuse to take coupons is because it wants to hurt the competitor. Perhaps they refused to accept the coupon because their billing application accepted only cash - we don't know. So we cannot logically draw the conclusion from this.
Answer (A)
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02 Nov 2019, 06:42
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The answer options are very long though.
Imo B
A The company may have other reason not to accept coupons than to hurt rival company. Accepting coupons may in fact cause them to loose money. So this is out
B Correct answer. It shows that Checkers Pizza did not accept coupons in spite of losing nothing.
C We are not concerned by the some other company which did not accept the coupons. We are concerned by Checkers Pizza. This is a vague statement. It does nothing to the argument.
D This is inverse reasoning we do not know if this is true.
E This gives another reasoning to not accept coupons. So this also out.
