Verbal Diagnostic Test No : 6 – CR Q No: 4

Previous experience has shown that Departmental stores are most profitable in areas where residents are highly concerned with leading healthy lives. We should therefore build our next new store in Plainsville, which has many such residents. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club, which nearly closed five years ago due to lack of business, has more members than ever now. We can even anticipate a new generation of customers: Plainsville's schoolchildren are required to participate in a 'fitness for life' program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age.

In the light of the above facts, what can indeed strengthen the above reasoning?

A: Heightened sales of exercise apparel may not adequately indicate that Plainsville residents would buy exercise clothing or that these residents themselves will resort to exercising.
B: The stimulus has no proof to claim the assumption that people who exercise regularly will also buy health foods.
C: Exclusive theme stores are said to be the in things in the near future
D: Because a certain fitness program is mandatory for Plainsville's school¬children, we cannot assume that they or their parents will rush to buy fitness products.
E: The author fails to weigh other factors such as longevity of a trend, existing wealth of the city and profile of the people and the general interest of the residents which are critical to making profits in a business venture.