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Digittel is marketing a new home phone system that works in conjunction with any cell phone now being sold. However, people who already have home phones will need to keep those phones -- as well as the Digittel phones -- in operation if they want to keep their existing home phone numbers after adding the new system.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason for believing that the Digittel system will be a very popular purchase even though people will have to maintain their old home phones to keep their existing phone number?

(A) Very few people in the market that Digittel wants to serve currently have home phone systems.
(B) The Digittel home phone system uses a technology that allows for substantially better reception than that of their previous home phone system.
(C) The price of a Digittel home phone system is comparable to the cost of other existing home phone systems.
(D) Digittel sells cell phones that can be connected only to their own home phone system, not any other home phone system.
(E) Most people who live in the region that Digittel wants to serve would like to keep their existing home phone numbers.

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Akp880 · Answer

Digittel is marketing a new home phone system that works in conjunction with any cell phone now being sold. However, people who already have home phones will need to keep those phones -- as well as the Digittel phones -- in operation if they want to keep their existing home phone numbers after adding the new system.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason for believing that the Digittel system will be a very popular purchase even though people will have to maintain their old home phones to keep their existing phone number?

(A) Very few people in the market that Digittel wants to serve currently have home phone systems.
(B) The Digittel home phone system uses a technology that allows for substantially better reception than that of their previous home phone system.
(C) The price of a Digittel home phone system is comparable to the cost of other existing home phone systems.
(D) Digittel sells cell phones that can be connected only to their own home phone system, not any other home phone system.
(E) Most people who live in the region that Digittel wants to serve would like to keep their existing home phone numbers.

POE: Lets breakdown the gist of given argument then paraphrase it.It broadly says-

Digittel--new home phone system>>>works in conjunction with any cell phone.

people who already have home phones>>>> need to keep those phones +Digittel phones to keep their existing home phone numbers

It means the new phone system is compatible with all current use phones,just one hurdle is that existing users will need to keep earlier phones too to keep their existing number. There should be some other good thing about Digittel phone system which will lure the existing phone users for purchase .

A- Question asks to provide reason for popular purchase if people will have to maintain their old home phones to keep their existing phone number.Out of scope.Hence  Incorrect

B- Correct.Looks promising and provides a strong reason to lure existing phone user due to inherent advantage.

C-If prices are comparable existing users may or may not purchase the new system.Inconclusive evidence...hence  Incorrect

D-The passage talks about Digittel home system and existing phones only.If the fact in this option is true then existing users may or may not purchase the new system. Incorrect

E-Already stated in question stem.Likelihood to keep existing phone numbers is already conveyed.No other reason is provided here to assure popular purchase of new phone system. Incorrect

Hence B is the correct answer.

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Atul Pandey

Varunsawhney8 · Answer

Digittel is marketing a new home phone system that works in conjunction with any cell phone now being sold. However, people who already have home phones will need to keep those phones -- as well as the Digittel phones -- in operation if they want to keep their existing home phone numbers after adding the new system.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason for believing that the Digittel system will be a very popular purchase even though people will have to maintain their old home phones to keep their existing phone number?

PLANNING ARGUMENT

CONC : NEW PHONE FOR HOME WILL BE POPULAR EVEN PEOPLE HAVE TO KEEP EXISTING PHONES

(A) Very few people in the market that Digittel wants to serve currently have home phone systems.
THIS CHOICE CAN SUGGEST MANY CONCLUSIONS-
1. PEOPLE DON'T LIKE KEEPING HOME PHONES
2. SIGNALS ARE NOT GOOD
3. HOME PHONES ARE EXPENSIVE
4. HOME PHONES ARE RECENTLY INTRODUCED CONCEPTS THAT IS WHY VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE BOUGHT HOME PHONES

SO INCORRECT CHOICE

(B) The Digittel home phone system uses a technology that allows for substantially better reception than that of their previous home phone system.
CORRECT CHOICE
THIS IS PROVIDING A REASON WHY NEW HOME PHONES WILL BE POPULAR AS THEY WILL PROVIDE BETTER CONNECTIONS.

(C) The price of a Digittel home phone system is comparable to the cost of other existing home phone systems.
INCORRECT
GOING BY THIS CHOICE- NO ONE WILL BE SPECIALLY INTERESTED TO BUY NEW HOME PHONES AS THERE IS NO UNIQUENESS IN NEW PHONES

(D) Digittel sells cell phones that can be connected only to their own home phone system, not any other home phone system.
THIS WILL WEAKEN IF IT CAN CONNECT TO ONLY DIGITEL PHONES WHY WOULD PEOPLE PURCHASE THEM.
INCORRECT

(E) Most people who live in the region that Digittel wants to serve would like to keep their existing home phone numbers.
INCORRECT
THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS CHOICE THAT TELLS US WHY PEOPLE WILL BUY THE PRODUCT

winterschool · Answer

Digittel is marketing a new home phone system that works in conjunction with any cell phone now being sold. However, people who already have home phones will need to keep those phones -- as well as the Digittel phones -- in operation if they want to keep their existing home phone numbers after adding the new system.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason for believing that the Digittel system will be a very popular purchase even though people will have to maintain their old home phones to keep their existing phone number?

(A) Very few people in the market that Digittel wants to serve currently have home phone systems.  Incorrect

we dont know whether they purchase Digittel home phone systems

(B) The Digittel home phone system uses a technology that allows for substantially better reception than that of their previous home phone system.  Incorrect

it shows why Digittel new home phone system is better than previous home phone system and why people buy it besides old phones

(C) The price of a Digittel home phone system is comparable to the cost of other existing home phone systems.  Incorrect

cost of home phone system is unrelated

(D) Digittel sells cell phones that can be connected only to their own home phone system, not any other home phone system.  Irrelevant 
 
(E) Most people who live in the region that Digittel wants to serve would like to keep their existing home phone numbers.  Incorrect

if people want to keep their existing home phone numbers, they less prefer new home phone system unless new home phone system better than previous

EMPOWERgmatVerbal · Answer

Official Explanation:

Digittel is marketing a new home phone system that works in conjunction with any cell phone now being sold. However, people who already have home phones will need to keep those phones -- as well as the Digittel phones -- in operation if they want to keep their existing home phone numbers after adding the new system.
 
 Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest reason for believing that the Digittel system will be a very popular purchase even though people will have to maintain their old home phones to keep their existing phone number? 
 
 (A) Very few people in the market that Digittel wants to serve currently have home phone systems. 
 (B) The Digittel home phone system uses a technology that allows for substantially better reception than that of their previous home phone system. 
 (C) The price of a Digittel home phone system is comparable to the cost of other existing home phone systems. 
 (D) Digittel sells cell phones that can be connected only to their own home phone system, not any other home phone system. 
 (E) Most people who live in the region that Digittel wants to serve would like to keep their existing home phone numbers.

Question Type:   Resolve the Paradox
  Boil It Down:   Digittel is a home phone system that works with your cell phone, yet it won’t work with an existing home phone line.
  Goal:    Find the most logical reason why people will still buy Digittel, even if they have to keep two home phone lines.

Analysis:

This question asks you to explain an apparent paradox. (This is not a logical argument, so we can’t analyze it for premises and a conclusion. )
 
Why would the Digittel system be so successful, as it says in the question, if people who already have home phones need to also keep their old systems running if they want to keep their numbers? This can be explained if the relative inconvenience of having to keep an existing phone system will not adversely affect many people. This is what choice A says. If a small percentage of people will opt not to get a Digittel system because of this inconvenience, this supports the idea that the Digittel system will still be a success.
 
 (A)  This is the correct choice.
 
 (B)  The comparison between the new Digittel home system and the old one does not go far enough to establish that the new one will be successful. Was the last one successful? We don’t know.
 
 (C)  This does not address the fact that some people would have to keep their existing system. How successful are the other existing home phone systems? How big a factor is price when people decide which to purchase or whether to purchase? We don’t know.
 
 (D)  This does not give a reason why people will buy the Digittel home system. We don't know how many people have or would buy Digittel’s cell phones.
 
 (E)  This tells us that people want to keep their home phone numbers, but not whether they want the inconvenience of having two systems, as would be required if they bought the Digittel system.

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ajayvikram4628 · Answer

Answer choice A gets away by saying that the number of users who have home phone system is too low; however, choice B states that the existing customers of home phone systems benefit by the Digittel system as well as new customers also benefit. IMO, Choice B is more strong.

kntombat · Answer

nightblade354  would love to know your take on why answer A is right and not B.

nightblade354 · Answer

Stick to official questions, mate. Almost every single non-official source is going to have issues with its questions, and this one is no exception.

RiyaJ0032 · Answer

Hi,  EMPOWERgmatVerbal

A, B and E were contenders

what we need is -

1) Digittel will be popular
2) this popularity will be despite the fact that people are required to keep their old home phones

Now A, just tell us that the old phone system is not in most of the households, hence Digittel's reception of the new home phone might not be stalled by the inconvenience caused to people of having to use 2 phones

but it does not address whether Digittel will be popular (what if people are not willing to buy the new phone, unless we know they surely will, then A can be said to be the answer)

Coming to B,
this gives us a reason as to why Digittel can be popular, but does not again tell whether people will be receptive to having both phones installed

Coming to E,
it tells us that people will want to have their old phone system, they do not have a problem with it

but it does not tell us whether they also want to purchase new phone system (unless this is assumed)

Then E looks better amongst all, since it tells us people want to buy Digittel and they would not even mind keeping their old phone system

not sure if this stem can have multiple options

if some expert could help,
Thank you

AjiteshArun 
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