Jamboree and GMAT Club Contest: Recently, editors of leading dailies : Critical Reasoning (CR)

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07 Nov 2015, 10:54

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As our goal is to find an assumption, we need to connect a conclusion and think of something that is far behind it. The assumption must be true to draw such conclusion.
First & second sentences tell us about complaints and racist issues. Basing its conclusion on market share (3rd sentence is premise) they are telling that 20% of consumers are aware.
Let's figure out important information and start prethinking:
1. People reporting offence may not be the consumers of Sucrocrop & Several indicate just more than 1. So, to create such conclusion we must know that that 20% are aware of the adv. or at least heard about the problem with racism in adv.
A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product. -< This is common answer trap. Too extreme and not tied to conclusion. Eliminate this
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements. Correct answer
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable. -< Hm, seems good. But remember, we don't know whether people who submitted complaints were consumers of Suncrop and are 80% of company's client. This is a trap! It could be a real world example, but answer MUST be TRUE. Eliminate this
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others. Out of scope and no tie to conclusion. We are not speaking about customer preferences in any types in the question and arguments even doesn't mention it
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks. Yes, it's maybe true in real world. Again they want us to fall into trap. But conclusion is that 20% don't find adv. controversial, not the victims and their destiny. Moreover, answer MUST be TRUE to draw argument. Eliminate this
So, answer choice left is B. If people didn't watch their advertisement (or the company didn't assume so in our case) then they cannot claim that 20% don't find adv. controversial.

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07 Nov 2015, 15:47

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Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses. Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones. However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses. Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.
Red- Conclusion
The conclusion suggests that the ones who purchase Sucrocorp’s cheeses consider that its advertisement do not contain any element of racism.
A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
- Actually, our conclusion suggests that cheese is purchased by ones who consider that the advertisement does not carry racist tones, so in the argument it is assumed that there is a link between the ad and consumption, so this answer is wrong. Additionally, if we negate this one, then we will have that the advertisement has an impact on consumer purchasing the cheese, so the ones that continue purchasing are not negatively affected.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
- Let’s negate this one. We will have that “Sucrocorp’s consumers not aware of its advertisements”. If consumers are not aware, this means that the current our conclusion stating that the clients do not find the ad with racist elements is wrong. This is the correct answer choice!
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
- This answer choice is out of scope. It is not relevant for the conclusion the fact whether advertisement is objectionable or not.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
- Another OFs answer. The preference of consumers from dairy market is irrelevant.
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.
- Another OFS answer choice. Whether complaint is being written by a person who was a victim of racist attacks is not important.

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08 Nov 2015, 07:21

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QUESTION #4:

Ans B

Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses. Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones. However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses. Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

Which of the following is an assumption of the argument?

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.

Conclusion Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.=correct

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07 Nov 2015, 23:09

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I suppose answer is B.
Those who read the dailies complained to the editors,but it is not mentioned that those who complained were customers of the company. As the product has 20% market share,it is concluded that 20% of people do not find the advertisement objectionable.The connection be only established in case Either the consumers read the advertisement or the people who complained are customers of the product. Choice B is the assumption.

B

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07 Nov 2015, 23:16

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I think it should be B.

Premises:
1) Leading dailies have received several complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp's cheese.
2) 90% of the complaints have accused it of carrying racist undertones
3) Sucrocorp's market share > 20%

Conclusion:
At least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

How to arrive at conclusion:
If out of 100, more than 20 people still purchase Suncrocorp's cheese => They dont have any problem with the ADs.

Pre-thinking Assumptions:
1)For the above link to be true, we should know for sure that those 20 people have actually seen the AD.
The conclusion breaks if we negate this.
2)The advertisements do impact the sale of a product

POE:
A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
Opposite of this could have been a contender. (pre-thought assumption 2 above)

B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
Bingo! If they are not aware of the ADs, the conclusion breaks.

C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
Just because the argument talks about %, please dont trick me with choices involving %

issue 1: The argument says that the market share is at least 20, it can even be 100%. There wont be any people who do not buy this cheese.
Issue 2: The people who do not buy this cheese might not be buying it even before the ADs were published. (Causal error)

D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
This is irrelevant. We are not concerned about the 'preference' of customers.

E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.
Irrelevant again.

Hence B.

B

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07 Nov 2015, 23:19

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Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses. Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones. However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses. Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

Which of the following is an assumption of the argument?
The assumption is that thethe people who buy the products are 1. aware of the campaign, 2. are not racists themselves (consumers could abet the racist campaign), 3. The consumers will alter their purchasing behaviour based on the advertisement campaign of the cheese-maker. 4. Note the *atleast twenty percent* part. This means that there could be other cheese customers who do not buy Sucrocorp's cheese and who don't find the advertisement objectionable.

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product. On the contrary the argument says that the dislike of an advertisement will have an effect on the likelihood of a consumer purchasing a product.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.Correct. Falls in line with Point 1.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.Notice the word *atleast* in the conclusion. Also, further, the argument doesnt mean that. It could well be possible that the balance 80% choose to buy other products simply because they like other cheeses and not Sucrocorp's cheese.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others. Irrelevant
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks. Irrelevant

Answer: B

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07 Nov 2015, 23:40

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Conclusion of the argument is "at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial." There could be more than 20% who do not find ad controversial.

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product. : We are not concerned about purchase rather the percentage who do not find the ad controversial

B. Suncorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements. Correct

C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Suncorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable. Suncorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses It has no bearing on conclusion.

D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others. Even this option is out of scope.

E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks. Out of scope.

The only choice left is B and it supports the conclusion so IMO B is the correct solution.

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08 Nov 2015, 13:41

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Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses. Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones. However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses. Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

Which of the following is an assumption of the argument?

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.

Ans:B
According to question After giving details of the complaints and a fact that in those complaints 90% have accused the advertisement for rascist undertones, The premise changed the topic showing that Sucrocorp own over 20 percent of market share and THIS LEADS to CONCLUSION At least 20% of consumers do not find advertisement controversial.
Here we have to find assumption--that is missing link between blue and pink
While reading I came up we assumption that advertisement was so popular that every one knew about it that is why the conclusion is Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.
Going with that lets scan the answer choices.
A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.--- This is a weaken point because if dislike has no impact then we cannot arrive at conclusion as it is based on like and dislike only
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements. -----This is more on lines on my assumption that every customer knows about advertisement and then we can arrive at conclusion. Or we can have negation test consumers were not aware of its advertisements Then our conclusion falls apart as if consumers are not knowing about advertisements then we can not conclude they donot find it controversial.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.-- this is tough one to eliminate-- putting it through negation test -- The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese donot consider the advertisement objectionable. This does not affects conclusion cos then also we have 20% consumers, who donot find it offensive.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.---Irrelevant
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.--- Irrelevant

G

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11 Nov 2015, 11:56

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Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses.
Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones.
However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses.
Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.
Assumption: these at-least 20% customers are aware of advertisements and don't find it controversial.

Which of the following is an assumption of the argument?

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.....this can be true for atleast few people but need not be assumed. Also even though a customer may find the advertisement controversial he may purchase a product out of necessity.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements..............................This is inline with our thinking.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.......This need not be assumed as it can be less even.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others..............preference is not of concern here. Out of scope.
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.......whether they are victims are not is out of scope

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Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses. Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones. However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses. Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

Which of the following is an assumption of the argument?

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.
Explanation:-
the causal relation is Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses.
--->
At least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.
Assumption-
All the consumers of suncorp (at least 20% of the total consumers)are aware of the advertisement.
Answer Choice Evaluation-
a)This is not discussed.Dislike may or may not have an impact.
b)This choice matches our assumption.Hence is correct.
c)This is not in the scope of the argument.
d)Out of scope.
e)Out of scope.Whether they are victim or not is not discussed.

Hence correct answer choice is "B".

Originally posted by pksam on 11 Nov 2015, 23:23.
Last edited by pksam on 13 Nov 2015, 23:09, edited 3 times in total.

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12 Nov 2015, 11:18

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Correct answer is B because Customers must be aware of the cheese company's practices to make the claim that 20 % are not having any problem with it.

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12 Nov 2015, 23:47

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Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses. Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones. However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses. Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

Which of the following is an assumption of the argument?

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.

Premise: Sentence 1,2 and 3.
Conclusion: Sentence 4
Assumption: People who buy Sucrocorp cheese are not offended by the advertisement. And these consumers are aware of its advertisements

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
- This actually weakens the assumption
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
- Part of the Assumtion.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
- Inference from sentence 3
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
- Irrelevent
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.
- Irrelevent

Best ans: B

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13 Nov 2015, 01:03

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This is a pretty tricky question I think. There are 2 pieces of information we need to notice:

1) There are several letters of complaint about advertisement = several people complain about advertisement (we don't know whether they are consumers of cheese or not).
2) Conclusion: At least 20 percent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial. Reason: Sucrocorp has 20 percent market share for cheeses.

We can immediately eliminate D and E since they are irrelevant. The passage does not mention anything about different types of cheeses or victims of racist attacks.

C is an inference from the passage, not an assumption. Eliminate C.

A seems to be logical. If consumers do not like cheese they can still buy it. But does this information connect the 1) and 2) information? Not really. We don't know whether among those who complained about the advertisement there is any Sucrocorp consumer or not. The logic is also different: the conclusion says "Consumers = Not find ad controversial = (roughly) Like ad". A says "Consumers = Like/Dislike ad". So A cannot be the assumption of the conclusion. The "Ninety percent.." piece of information simply distracts us from the main conclusion. Eliminate A.

Answer is B.

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07 Nov 2015, 12:37

Option D,E are out of scope, option A weakens the argument, option C can't be an assumption for this argument. Hence option B is correct and can become a missing link between premise and conclusion.

B

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07 Nov 2015, 13:55

IMO C is correct
QUESTION #4:

Recently, editors of leading dailies have received several letters of complaint about an advertisement for Sucrocorp’s new range of cheeses. Ninety per cent of those who have complained about the advertisement have accused it of carrying racist undertones. However, Sucrocorp owns over twenty per cent of the market share for cheeses. Therefore, at least twenty per cent of consumers do not find the advertisement controversial.

Which of the following is an assumption of the argument?

A. Dislike of an advertisement has no impact on the likelihood that a consumer will purchase the product.
B. Sucrocorp’s consumers are aware of its advertisements.
C. The eighty per cent of consumers who do not buy Sucrocorp cheese consider the advertisement objectionable.
D. Most consumers in the dairy market prefer certain types of cheese to others.
E. Most of the complaints against the advertisement were by people who have themselves been the victims of racist attacks.

As the prephrase of the stimulus suggests that author assumes that 20% who buy cheese do not find cheese advertisement objectionable

C matches with our pre-thinking also if we apply negation test then the arguments is impacted if option c is negated

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07 Nov 2015, 15:43

Ans is A
There is a jump of logic between the sentences . The assumption completes the logic.

D

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08 Nov 2015, 01:14

Editors -> Received several letters of complaint -> adv for Sun's new range of cheese
90% (Complaints) --> accused that ads carry racist undertones.
Sun -> 20% of mkt share for cheese.
So 20% of consumers -> did not find the adv controversial

Assumption: Controversial ads do not change the market share percentage of SunCorp's cheese.

Negating A breaks the conclusion.

Answer: A

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