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President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies [#permalink] New post   14 Jun 2020, 06:13
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President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies and frequent the cinemas regularly, an activity that acts as a good source of revenue for our government. Setting up movie rental services within the country would cater to such people who would then have easier access to movies. However, setting up such services wouldn’t be of help to the economy since___________.

Which of the following statements most logically completes the argument?


A) movies that show a lot of violence are a bad influence on the young generation.

B) the available leisure time is not enough to cater to the increased movie watching and people will cut into their productive time to compensate for it.

C) nowadays, production of movies has become a costly endeavour with incommensurate returns on investment.

D) it is cheaper to run a movie rental business than to run a cinema theater .

E) movie rental services might encourage piracy of movies.
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Re: President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies [#permalink] New post   16 Jun 2020, 22:49
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VeritasKarishma Can u help ?
Why should E not be an answer here ? Piracy will cause govt to loose revenue thus bad for economy.


Not a high quality question.

The thing against (E) is "might" so not a strong strengthener.
I expected more on the lines of details about how movie rentals are a weaker source of revenue. Movie rentals encouraging piracy is a valid point too since revenue is certainly lost in that.
Whether loss of productive time leads to loss of govt revenue is a bit more circuitous connection - one which I did not want to make.

All in all, just let the question be.
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Re: President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2020, 00:19
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IMO E is not giving us enough information on how the piracy of movies will be detrimental to the economy, it is stated on the argument but no more details are given on how it will affect the economy.

Yet on B the argument claims that watching movies might cut into their productive time which most times results in less services and goods to sell thus less revenue.
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Re: President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2020, 12:18
VeritasKarishma Can u help ?
Why should E not be an answer here ? Piracy will cause govt to loose revenue thus bad for economy.
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Re: President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies [#permalink] New post   16 Jun 2020, 20:07
Not E becasue it says might encourage while we need an answer which definitely don't wouldn't help the economy. Which is case B

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Re: President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies [#permalink] New post   17 Jun 2020, 00:34
With POE:
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A is irrelevant
C.Has no relation with economy
D. It is contradicting
E. Could have been the answer, but because of the usage of 'Might'B is best choice

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President of Lazyville: The people of our country love watching movies [#permalink] New post   15 Aug 2020, 04:36
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Agreed, this isn't a high quality question. The main reason being, a good question will test direct impact/effects rather than both indirect effects.

In context of this question however, here's why (B) has a stronger correlation than (E)

B) the available leisure time is not enough to cater to the increased movie watching and people will cut into their productive time to compensate for it.
Low Leisure Time > Intruding into productive time > Less productivity in businesses > impact on the economy. Thus, bad idea to have a Blockbuster come up and eat into a booming Inox business.

E) movie rental services might encourage piracy of movies.
Blockbuster comes up > Piracy MIGHT increase > eat into Inox' business > impact on the economy IF Inox is big enough to cause an impact. Notice the conditional words which weaken this option.
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