In Los Angeles, a political candidate who buys saturation radio advert

Question

In Los Angeles, a political candidate who buys saturation radio advertising will get maximum name recognition.

The statement above logically conveys which of the following?

A. Radio advertising is the most important factor in political campaigns in Los Angeles.

B. Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles will help a candidate to win a higher percentage of votes cast in the city.

C. Saturation radio advertising reaches every demographically distinct sector of the voting population of Los Angeles.

D. For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising.

E. A candidate's record of achievement in the Los Angeles area will do little to affect his or her name recognition there.

Bunuel · Accepted Answer

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D

An LA political candidate who buys saturation radio advertising will get maximum name recognition. In other words, such advertising is sufficient for maximum name recognition. If so, then it must be true that, as (D) says, a candidate can get such recognition without spending on other forms of media.

(A) suggests that radio advertising is the most important factor in L.A. political campaigns, but nothing like this was mentioned in the stimulus, so it's not inferable. Nor were we told the specific results of attaining maximum name recognition, so (B) is out. Similarly, we don't know precisely what is meant by "saturation radio advertising," so we can't infer anything as detailed as (C). Finally, although we know saturation radio advertising is sufficient for getting maximum name recognition, we can't infer that other things, such as the candidate's record mentioned in (E), have little effect on name recognition.

KapTeacherEli · Answer

(C) mentions EVERY demographic, compared to the original statements MAXIMUM name-recognition. It is entirely possible that there is an upper limit to name recognition, in which case the universal coverage in (C) would be not merely unnecessary, but also impossible.

Imagine, for instance, that no matter how much you advertise and no matter where and when your name is mentioned, the Quadrino population simply will not recognize you--they are culturally unconcerned with politics and linguistically incapable of pronouncing your name. In that case, you can still achieve maximum recognition with radio advertising even if the radio never reaches the Quadrinos. Purchasing additional TV or Newspaper advertisements in their district would be a waste of money, since they won't recognize you anyway.

Jefferson · Answer

I've understood it a little differently. But maybe, we're talking about the same thing. Let me try:
What you want is maximum name recognition. 
If you can get it with radio advertising - everything is fine. So why spend on other media channels?
If you get maximum name recognition via radio advertisments, there's no way to top that. You can't get more than the maximum. So each cent spent on other media channels is wasted.

KapTeacherEli · Answer

Hi Jefferson,

You're absolutely right about why (D) is right. My post above was specifically covering why (C) was  wrong , since it proved to be a tempting wrong answer choice for many students.

ENAFEX · Answer

Radio Advertising -> Maximum Name and Recognition
Cause -> Effect

For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising.

For the effect to occur the cause alone is enough.

kraizada84 · Answer

In Los Angeles, a political candidate who buys saturation radio advertising will get maximum name and recognition.

The statement above logically conveys which of the following?

A. Radio advertising is the  most important facto r in political campaigns in Los Angeles. 
B. Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles will help a candidate  to win a higher percentage of votes cast in the city.  
C. Saturation radio advertising reaches  every demographically distinct sector  of the voting population of Los Angeles. 
D. For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising. 
E. A candidate's record of achievement in the Los Angeles area  will do little to affect  his or her name recognition there.

all parts in  red  are just new information not supported by the argument.
Only D remains.

lindt123 · Answer

In Los Angeles, a political candidate who buys saturation radio advertising will get maximum name and recognition.

The statement above logically conveys which of the following?

A. Radio advertising is the most important factor in political campaigns in Los Angeles. 
B. Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles will help a candidate to win a higher percentage of votes cast in the city. 
C. Saturation radio advertising reaches every demographically distinct sector of the voting population of Los Angeles. 
D. For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising. 
E. A candidate's record of achievement in the Los Angeles area will do little to affect his or her name recognition there.[/quote
Can some one please explain why the answer is D and not B ???

gmatprav · Answer

The answer is not B because the question stem does not mention anything about votes. D is correct because if radio advertising gives maximum name and recognition then nothing else would hence it does not make logical sense to spend on other media channels. Hope it helps. Please Kudos if you like the explanation

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rohitmanglik · Answer

E is wrong because E mentioned "little" rather than "comparatively little than effect of radio advertisement" right?

shubhraghosh · Answer

A mathematical approach here. In mathematical logic there is a rule for logical deduction.

If A implies B the NOT B always implies NOT A.

So, in this question, if an answer was presented that not getting maximum name and recognition implies the candidate did not buy the saturation radio advertising, that would have been the best answer. However, we don't have that here. Also, note that this is an inference question. In inference question, the correct answer choice MUST BE TRUE. And outside information is usually not appreciated in inference questions. With this understanding, let's move on to the answer choices.

A. Radio advertising is the most important factor in political campaigns in Los Angeles.  Outside information presented. The question mentions nothing about the relative importance of diff. factors. Hence Out of Scope. 
B. Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles will help a candidate to win a higher percentage of votes cast in the city.  Though this is logical in our common world, the question doesn't introduce any such information. Hence for the context of the passage, it is an OUTSIDE INFO. Hence incorrect. 
C. Saturation radio advertising reaches every demographically distinct sector of the voting population of Los Angeles.  Reach is not described, outside info, so eliminate it 
D. For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising.  Yes, this need not be true. The passage only mention one of the possibilities, but it doesn't say it is the only possibility. Hence it is a MUST BE TRUE Choice. And indeed the correct one. 
E. A candidate's record of achievement in the Los Angeles area will do little to affect his or her name recognition there.  The contribution to name and recognition is not discussed, hence can't be inferred

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

jaisonsunny77 · Answer

the objective/main result: To get maximum name and recognition.  
 
A. Radio advertising is the most important factor in political campaigns in Los Angeles.  -  the passage does not clarify/support any contention made on the ''most important'' factor for political campaigns.   
B. Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles will help a candidate to win a higher percentage of votes cast in the city.  -  the passage is not concerned with ''winning votes''.   
C. Saturation radio advertising reaches every demographically distinct sector of the voting population of Los Angeles.  -  the information provided in the passage does not support this contention.  
D. For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising. - from the information provided to us in the passage, we do know that saturation radio advertising is capable of achieving maximum name and recognition. Hence, we can support (D) based on the information provided to us in the passage. Therefore,    (D) is the right answer choice.    
 E. A candidate's record of achievement in the Los Angeles area will do little to affect his or her name recognition there.  -  All the passage is concerned about is the main result: To achieve maximum name and recognition, not whether certain factors may affect the recognition of a candidate.

Crytiocanalyst · Answer

A. Radio advertising is the most important factor in political campaigns in Los Angeles.
This may or may not be the case we cannot infer the same from the given set of information -Hence out

B. Maximum name recognition in Los Angeles will help a candidate to win a higher percentage of votes cast in the city.
This is a ovversimplification the direct relationship between vote share and name recognition is not stated in the passage -Hence out

C. Saturation radio advertising reaches every demographically distinct sector of the voting population of Los Angeles.
The passage only states maximum reach that doesn't help us any further may be a vast majority of them are concentrated in a single location therby not reaching a vast demographic loccations -Hence out

D. For maximum name recognition a candidate need not spend on media channels other than radio advertising.
This is a direct relationship that we can infer -Hence in

E. A candidate's record of achievement in the Los Angeles area will do little to affect his or her name recognition there
This is thoroughly out of context and i couldn't make much of any sense from the gien statement -Hence out

Therefore IMO D

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