New Evergreen Gum has twice as much flavor for your money as Spring Mi

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New Evergreen Gum has twice as much flavor for your money as Spring Mint Gum, and we can prove it. You see, a stick of Evergreen Gum is twice as large as a stick of Spring Mint Gum, and the more gum, the more flavor.

Which of the following, if true, would not undermine the persuasive appeal of the above advertisement?

(A) A package of Spring Mint Gum contains twice as many sticks as a package of Evergreen Gum.

(B) Spring Mint Gum has more concentrated flavor than Evergreen Gum.

(C) A stick of Evergreen Gum weighs only 50% as much as a stick of Spring Mint Gum.

(D) A package of Evergreen Gum costs twice as much as a package of Spring Mint Gum.

(E) People surveyed indicated a preference for Evergreen Gum over Spring Mint Gum.

devavrat · Answer

Not able to understand the basis for selecting option E. 
People favor evergreen gum should not be the basis to determine the persuasive appeal of the advertisement. There should be some point from which we are able to show that evergreen gum is better than the other one

Pls help

debnathsourav · Answer

How it could be option E? Please explain.

Kanvi · Answer

please provide solution to this question . i am not able to understand how e is the answer

manass · Answer

How is C undermining the appeal. Also isn't E unrelated as we are talking about flavors

Guru3794 · Answer

Which of the following, if true,   would not undermine   the persuasive appeal of the above advertisement?

Would not undermine == DOES NOT WEAKEN  
Use Process of Elimination

(A) A package of Spring Mint Gum contains twice as many sticks as a package of Evergreen Gum.
 --> SMG is better

(B) Spring Mint Gum has more concentrated flavor than Evergreen Gum.
 --> SMG is better

(C) A stick of Evergreen Gum weighs only 50% as much as a stick of Spring Mint Gum.
 --> EG weighs less --> SMG is better

(D) A package of Evergreen Gum costs twice as much as a package of Spring Mint Gum.
 --> Notice, EG costs twice however still it is given that EG greater in size. merely restates the argument.

(E) People surveyed indicated a preference for Evergreen Gum over Spring Mint Gum
 --> New fact is introduced. This statement if true, does not undermine the argument. If anything only weakens it.

Lately i'm getting such questions for practice in my error log, & i'm making mistakes on these question types.

Would welcome senior moderators here to shed light on how to undertake these kinds of questions..

RajdeepGM · Answer

Very clearly E is right. Rest all options gies against the claim put frwd in the passage.

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