For each of the five feature films premiering last July 4,

Given data :
Five feature films released and all the five feature films generated revenues lesser than expected,

A movie starred by Tyfields generated more revenue than his previous movies (still revenue generated was less than expected) so the expected revenue of Tyfields current movie was higher than any of his previous movies.

Option D gives this conclusion.

INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE STIMULUS:-
Five movies were released. All earned less money then the executive predicted. TY's movie earned more than all his previous films on premiere.

Lets say the five movies , their estimated earning and their actual earning as as follows

Jungle Boy (starring Clive Ovan) {estimated earning 40 Million} {actual earning 18 Million}
The man who fought the invisible demons (starring Leo Caprio) {estimated earning 44 Million} {actual earning 23 Million}
Tin-Man: Universe Colliding (Bob Downy Jr.) }estimated earning 100 Million} {actual earning 78 Million}
Blessings from heaven (Starring Meryl Steam) {estimated earning 21 Million} {actual earning 7 Million}
Funny Cops -3 (Starring Ty Fields) {estimated earning 33 Million} {actual earning 28 Million} (Before this movie none of the TY Field's movies earned 28 million on premiere.. His highest earning was Funny Cops 2 which earned 21 Million. )


Based on this info what can you say for sure
C. Ty Fields was the only actor whose movie earned more on opening day than any of his previous films had earned on their premieres.(28 million )>21 million

Assign values or symbols and inference just pops out.

D. The amount movie executives predicted that this Ty Fields movie would earn on opening day was higher than any previous Ty Fields movie had earned on its premiere.


(Took around 5 mins to solve it.)

KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

Identify the Question Type:

This is an Inference question, as it asks for a choice that must be true if the statements in the stimulus are true.

Untangle the Stimulus:

Inference stimuli rarely contain complete arguments. Rather, they contain statements from which a deduction will be made. To untangle, just read and paraphrase the statements in the stimulus. Here, every one of five movies earned much less on opening day than had been predicted. The particular movie starring Ty Fields, however, earned more than any other Ty Fields movie had earned on its opening day.

Predict the Answer:

Usually, Inference questions are not predictable. Here, however, the two statements can be combined to reveal something new. If this particular Ty Fields movie earned more than any other Ty Fields movie on its opening day, yet it still earned less than expected, then the amount it was expected to earn was also greater than the earnings of any other Ty Fields movie on its opening day.

Evaluate the Answer Choices:

(D) is the answer, as it combines the two statements to give another statement that must be true.

(A) is not something that must be true from the stimulus. The movie executives were inaccurate in their predictions for all five films, but the stimulus does not give any information at all about how inaccurate they were. In fact, their prediction about the Ty Fields film may even have been the most accurate of all. The stimulus just doesn't say.

(B) is not something that can be concluded from the statements in the stimulus, because the stimulus only compares the prediction for each movie to that movie's actual earnings. There is no earnings comparison between any of the movies.

(C) is wrong because although Ty Fields is the only actor mentioned with this phenomenon, that doesn‘t mean no other actors experienced it as well. The stimulus simply doesn’t give any information to determine this. It simply says, "one of these movies," not only one of these movies.

(E) is not something that can be concluded from the stimulus, because the stimulus gives no information about how high the prediction for any of the movies was, nor the relative amounts of the predictions.

TAKEAWAY: It's crucial to keep in mind that an Inference on the GMAT is something that must be true from the stimulus.

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