GMAT Club Olympics 2025 (Day 1): More gym memberships are bought in

Premise: More gym memberships are bought in the town of Schwartz than in the town of Talsberg
Conclusion: the citizens of Schwartz exercise more frequently than do the citizens of Talsberg.

Author is connecting more number of memberships with more frequent gym goers

Question stem is asking us to mark the choice that either strengthen or do not weaken the argument since its an except type.

lets go through each option:
A. Schwartz has a larger population than Talsberg does.
If Schwartz has larger population that Talsberg, then ofcourse 1% of population of Schwartz > 1% of Talsberg. This weakens the argument by pointing out another reason for higher memberships bought in Schwartz.

B. Most citizens of Talsberg work in Schwartz and have memberships in gyms there.
Since Talsberg people work in Schwatrz and have bought memberships of gym there, so it means that the memberships are actually more bought by Talsberg's citizen than Schwartz's citizens. This weakens the argument

C. The average price of a gym membership is lower in Schwartz than it is in Talsberg.
So since the memberships cost lower in Schwartz hence the number of memberships here is more that Talsberg. This is alternative explanation to the cause and thus weakens the argument

D. A large, free community gym open to all is available to the citizens of Talsberg.
Since a large number of free gyms are open to all in Talsberg so they don't require gym membership there and provides us sufficient reason to believe why memberships are low in Talsberg. Hence weakens the argument.

E. The average citizen of Schwartz spends less time at the gym per week than does the average citizen of Talsberg.
Spending less time does not say anything about the frequency of usage of gym. So this does nothing to out conclusion and hence the right answer.

Hence option E is correct