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Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television

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Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 06 Aug 2005, 05:56
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Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television programming invariably results in a de­crease in television viewership. Members of the Television Writers Union are threatening to go on strike this season in order to compel the televi­sion studios to meet certain demands. Clearly, the movie studios whose movies are shown in the­aters should hope that the television writers will indeed decide to go on strike.
Each of the following must be assumed to be true in order for the conclusion above to be properly drawn EXCEPT:
(A) Television writers are not the same writers who write screenplays for movies shown in movie theaters.
(B) An increase in movie theater attendance will result in increased profits for movie theaters.
(C) A television writers' strike would result in a decline in the quality of television program­ming.
(D) Movie studio profits are directly correlated to the profits of the movie theaters them­selves.
(E) When people watch less television, their movie theater attendance increases.

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Re: Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television [#permalink] New post   30 Jul 2005, 07:15
A.
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Re: Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television [#permalink] New post   30 Jul 2005, 10:34
and explanations? ;)
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Re: Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television [#permalink] New post   30 Jul 2005, 11:12
A. If you deny A, i.e. the television writers on strike on the same ones for movies, then the movie studio won't be happy. Thus A.
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Re: Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television [#permalink] New post   30 Jul 2005, 11:58
A, all we need is TV to decline for movie studios to live large, it does not matter who writes their product...
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Re: Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television [#permalink] New post   31 Jul 2005, 00:56
OA is A.

Having a look at it, the problem seems easy :)
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Re: Everybody agrees that a decline in the quality of television [#permalink] New post   11 Aug 2005, 20:05
How can it be A?
If the Writers are the same for movies and TV, then movie executives wouldn't want them to go on strike as the quality of the scripts would also decrease. It seems kind of obvious to me.

B is the correct answer. Movie executives are not the same as movie theatre owners so B doesn't do anything for the argument.
The rest of the 4 choices needed to be assumed.



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