A minor league baseball franchise experienced a drop in attendance

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A minor league baseball franchise experienced a drop in attendance this week after they suffered three losses by margins of ten runs or more last week. Many spectators of those games wrote letters to the editors of the local sporting news, complaining of the poor play of the team in those three losses. Nevertheless, the front office of this baseball franchise maintains that the team's poor play in those three losses has nothing to do with this week's decline in attendance.

We need to find a reason that states reason for probable drop in attendance other than the team's poor play.

Consider, option (C) Other minor league teams in that region of the state reported a similar drop in attendance this week which aligns with our presumption.

Answer: C.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the position held by the front office of the baseball franchise?

(A) The spectators who wrote letters to the local sporting news were long-standing fans of this minor league baseball team.

(B) Many minor league baseball franchises attribute a drop in attendance to the quality of play of the team only after a string of losses.

(C) Other minor league teams in that region of the state reported a similar drop in attendance this week.

(D) This was the not the first time this team suffered multiple lopsided losses in a single week, prompting similar letters to the local sporting news.

(E) This minor league team is over four hours from the closest major league team, so many of the minor league team's fans do not often attend major league games.

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Matthyrou · Answer

Hey everybody, aim of the qu.: find an other reason to justify the decrease of attendies and counter the poor play's reason.
a)nothing to do with the aim 
b)strengthen the poor play's argument
c)give a sounded reason why a drop of attendance arrived this week
d)nothing to do with the aim of the qu.
e)it gives information why minor league's fans watch this rather than the major league, but not correlated with the drop
I wish it's gonna help you and i wish a wonderfull gmat studing day to everybody

mbaaccount1234 · Answer

Going with C. It gives space for another reason for the drop in attendence appart from poor games from the team...

Krunaal · Answer

The correct answer is (C), as it most directly supports the front office’s argument by suggesting that the attendance drop may be due to factors affecting all teams in the region, not just this team's recent poor performance.

prantorboni · Answer

A minor league baseball franchise experienced a drop in attendance this week after they suffered three losses by margins of ten runs or more last week. Many spectators of those games wrote letters to the editors of the local sporting news, complaining of the poor play of the team in those three losses. Nevertheless, the front office of this baseball franchise maintains that the team's poor play in those three losses has nothing to do with this week's decline in attendance.

We need to find a reason that states reason for probable drop in attendance other than the team's poor play.

Consider, option (C) Other minor league teams in that region of the state reported a similar drop in attendance this week which aligns with our presumption.

Answer: C.

We need to find a reason that states reason for probable drop in attendance other than the team's poor play.

Consider, option   (C) Other minor league teams in that region of the state reported a similar drop in attendance this week which aligns with our presumption.

Answer: C.

Bunuel · Answer

Magoosh Official Explanation:

The statement by the front office of the baseball franchise seems, on the surface, not to take the basic facts into account. If we want to strengthen this position, there must be some alternate explanation for the drop in attendance.

Part of strengthening the franchise's position would be weakening the original position: namely, that the team's poor play explains the drop in attendance.

(C) is the credited answer.  If other minor league teams also experience a drop this week, there must be something global in this market affecting all teams. We don't know what this factor is, but it's something that touches all teams, not just those that played bad last week. This provides a cogent alternative explanation, even though we don't know the specific nature of the factor causing the drop in attendance.

Both (A) & (D) strengthen the original position, namely, that the team's poor play explains the drop in attendance. In order to strengthen the baseball franchise's position, we have to weaken this original position.

Choice (B) essentially accuses the baseball franchise of lying, or at least bluffing, which hardly strengthens their position.

Choice (E) simply adds to the paradox: if the closest MLB team is far away and folks typically don't go there, then there would be more demand for the local minor league baseball. Given that demands, a drop in attendance doesn't make as much sense. This choice adds to the confusing without explaining anything.

A minor league baseball franchise experienced a drop in attendance

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