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Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the argument below?
Most storeowners have installed specialized surveillance measures to prevent cashier theft. However, these measures are unlikely to significantly reduce the amount of retail revenue stolen by cashiers, because experienced cashiers can figure out how to get past the measures and ______.
(A) retail operations have become more expensive due to the addition of the surveillance measures
(B) unlike stores that have specialized surveillance measures, stores that do not can lose up to ten percent of their yearly revenue to cashier theft
(C) many instances of cashier theft are quickly found out by storeowners
(D) storeowners are more likely to fail to audit daily earnings if the store has the measures in place than if the store does not
(E) roughly seven percent of revenue lost in the retail sector per year was found to be the result of cashier theft before the specialized surveillance measures became commonplace
Most storeowners have installed specialized surveillance measures to prevent cashier theft. However, these measures are unlikely to significantly reduce the amount of retail revenue stolen by cashiers, because experienced cashiers can figure out how to get past the measures and ______.
(A) retail operations have become more expensive due to the addition of the surveillance measures
(B) unlike stores that have specialized surveillance measures, stores that do not can lose up to ten percent of their yearly revenue to cashier theft
(C) many instances of cashier theft are quickly found out by storeowners
(D) storeowners are more likely to fail to audit daily earnings if the store has the measures in place than if the store does not
(E) roughly seven percent of revenue lost in the retail sector per year was found to be the result of cashier theft before the specialized surveillance measures became commonplace
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D.
The sentence is trying to justify this claim: the new measures will not cut cashier theft by much.
So the blank must add a reason that, even with the measures, theft still keeps happening.
D does that: if owners audit less once the measures are installed, then an experienced cashier can bypass the measures and the theft is less likely to be discovered. That means the measures do not reduce theft much.
The other choices do not explain why theft would stay high after the measures (A, E), are just comparisons or background (B, E), or actually suggest theft would be caught more easily (C).
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