Advancement in technology occurs primarily in areas in which

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Advancement in technology occurs primarily in areas in which customers have expressed an interest. Only certain businesses are currently demanding advancements in telecommunications technology. Accordingly, future advances in telecommunications technology will yield products useful almost exclusively to those certain businesses.

Which of the following is an assumption made in the argument above?

The demand for standard telecommunications technology is affected by increased demand for advancements in such technology. 
 
 Advancements in technology are mainly brought about by desire from a particular group of customers. 
 
 Improved telecommunications technology will not be generally applicable to the needs of all customers. 
 
 The number of advancements made in telecommunications technology increases when different kinds of businesses demand it. 
 
 Most customers do not keep up with new developments in telecommunications technology.

abhijit_sen · Answer

I will go with B. Because in second line it says "Only certain businesses", that means only these businesses are affecting the advancements in telecommunication.

ashkrs · Answer

B only connect advancements of tech with customers.

pmenon · Answer

i say C. If you negate C, argument falls apart. The author is assuming that what the specific business are asking for wont result in technology that is beneficial to all customers, i,e. all telecom companies.

moni77 · Answer

I think is B. 
If you notice there is a gap in the reasoning, between the premise and the conclusion, In this case, the assumption has the role to close that gap. The author said that only  certain bussinesses demand advancements in telecommunications technology , and  that future advances in telecommunications technology will yield products useful almost exclusively to those certain businesses . What would link these two statements? Advancements in technology require customer interest. The author fails to state that those bussinesses demand advancement as a result of their customer interest. So products manufactured as a result of advances in telecomunication will be useful for the group of customers that showed interest in those bussinesses.

sreehari · Answer

I am going to go with C.

To me what stated in B is not an assumption. It can be infered from the description. I think the key word here is "exclusive", the asusmption is that the new technolgies will be only benificial to a select group.

Is it OA time yet?

Vavali · Answer

I go with B

terp26 · Answer

I am with C

conclusion states that

If we paraphrase the stem:

Because only certain businesses are demanding advancements in technology, this means that customers have expressed an interest in them developing the tech.

In order to go from this to the conclusion that their advancements will only help certain business, we need to assume that the consumers (who expressed interest) would not benefit the needs (or be useful) to consumers

Vavali · Answer

OA please......

ocprep · Answer

It's C - Improved telecommunications technology will not be generally applicable to the needs of all customers. 
Argument assumes advancement in technology will not be useful to all/other customers.

spider · Answer

Going with C

Vavali · Answer

I think it's time for the OA

giantSwan · Answer

OA is C.

Source: Princeton Review

Advancement in technology occurs primarily in areas in which

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