Conclusion: One should always buy a frying pan with a manufacturer's warranty, even paying more, even if one would never seek reimbursement.
Premise: Manufacturers won't offer a warranty if it means reimbursing many customers for products that didn't work well or last long..
A) Most people would ask for a refund if the pan failedThis is the missing piece. The whole argument only makes sense if people actually claim refunds when a pan is bad. That's the only reason manufacturers would be "careful" about offering warranties.
Keep
B) All warrantied pans work as well as non-warrantied onesThis just says the same thing as the conclusion in other words. It doesn't explain
why it's true, it just repeats it.
Reject
C) Costlier pans are more likely to have a warrantyPrice has nothing to do with the actual logic here. Irrelevant.
Reject
D) Costlier pans last longerAgain, about price, not about warranty = quality. Doesn't fix the gap.
Reject.E) Most warranties fully satisfy customersThis is about what the warranty
covers, not whether having a warranty means the pan is actually good. Doesn't help, since you said you'd never use the warranty anyway.
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One should only buy a frying pan that has a manufacturer's warranty, even if it requires paying more, and even if one would never bother seeking reimbursement should the pan not work well or last long. Manufacturers will not offer a warranty on a product if doing so means that they will need to reimburse many customers because the product did not work well or last long.
The conclusion of the argument is strongly supported if which one of the following is assumed?
(A) Most people who buy a frying pan with a manufacturer's warranty would seek reimbursement should the pan fail to work well or last long.
(B) All of the frying pans currently on the market that are covered by a manufacturer's warranty work at least as well at the time of purchase as any of the frying pans not covered by a warranty.
(C) The more a frying pan costs, the more likely it is to be covered by a manufacturer's warranty.
(D) The most expensive frying pans are the ones most likely to work well for many years.
(E) Most frying pan manufacturers warranties provide for full customer satisfaction.