vasuca10 wrote:
I marked Option E because if filmgoers are drawn to a variety of films it will strengthen the fact that the film was competing with several other films and hence the audience was scattered and number of viewers were probably small
VeritasKarishma Mam can you please explain where am I going wrong in my pre thinking ?
Also Kindly explain How Option B is correct as rest of the options I am able to eliminate
We need to strengthen the director's explanation. This is what the explanation is:
He says that his movie got a small audience because the moviegoers (to whom this kind of movie appeals) got split among many movies (that appeal to the same group of moviegoers) that were playing.
For example, say the director's movie is a spy thriller A which appeals to the 15 - 25 age group. Say the same age group likes Sci-fi too and there are 3 sci-fi movies playing over the same weekend. So the people in this age group get split among the 4 movies. We need to strengthen his explanation.
(A) The film director's film received no positive reviews.
Does not help the director's case.
(B) Filmgoers seldom see more than one film in a weekend.
This helps. One might argue that the moviegoers could have watched all the movies that appealed to them so having multiple movies playing may have had no impact. But if filmgoers watch only one movie over a weekend, they will watch only one of the 4 movies that appeal to them. So if a single movie were playing over the weekend, all 100% may watch that. But if 4 movies that appeal to them were playing, using equal probabilities, only 25% moviegoers will watch it if they will watch only one movie. This strengthens the director's explanation.
(C) The total number of filmgoers was larger than average on the weekend the film director's film opened.
The total number of filmgoers doesn't impact the director's explanation at all.
(D) Each of the other films that the film director alludes to receive one or two positive reviews.
We cannot compare the films based on number of positive/negative reviews and whether they could have impacted the audience's decision without more information.
(E) Most filmgoers are drawn to a variety of kinds of film.
Note what the argument tells us: "it was competing with several other films that appeal to the same type of filmgoer that mine does,
and the number of such viewers is relatively small"
Even if most filmgoers are drawn to a variety of kinds of film, the number of viewers drawn to his kind of film is relatively small. The problem was that this small group got split due to other appealing movies playing over the same weekend.
This option doesn't impact the director's explanation.
Answer (B)