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Agree with A.

Negate the A.

Defects in merhandise are <remove not>so Significant that customer will be unwilling to pay even sale price.
--> No body will buy the merchanides --> conclusion falls apart.

what is OA?
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Though OA is A. I am not convinced with your explanation. To me "not so significant" can be significant or not so insignificant. Am I right?
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The author assumes about the 'effectiveness' of one-day sale keeping in mind both 'defective merchandise' and 'one-day sale to clear them off'. The only option that covers both these things for an assumption is option A.
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Assume (A) to be false.

This would mean:

The defects in would be significant enough for the the customers to be unwilling to pay even the sale price.

This would make the authors conclusion invalid.

Thus it has to be assumed true.

'Not so significant' means that it is significant, but not significant enough to stop the customers from purchasing it if they are on sale.
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Though OA is A. I am not convinced with your explanation. To me "not so significant" can be significant or not so insignificant. Am I right?
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I agree with you. but, A is best among 5 answer choices.
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Though OA is A. I am not convinced with your explanation. To me "not so significant" can be significant or not so insignificant. Am I right?

I agree with you. but, A is best among 5 answer choices.
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'Not so significant' cannot be significant OR not so significant by itself.

It is a conditional significance. That is, it will be significant if the price is high. As a result, people will not buy it. However, if the price is lowered (one day sale), then it will not be significant enough to prevent people from buying the product. (this is clearly impled in A).

This assumption is absolutely necessary for the argument to stand because if it were false, then there would be no way the author could say that a one day sale will help shops get rid of their damaged products because people would not buy it even if it were on sale.
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Though OA is A. I am not convinced with your explanation. To me "not so significant" can be significant or not so insignificant. Am I right?

I agree with you. but, A is best among 5 answer choices.
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'Not so significant' cannot be significant OR not so significant by itself.

It is a conditional significance. That is, it will be significant if the price is high. As a result, people will not buy it. However, if the price is lowered (one day sale), then it will not be significant enough to prevent people from buying the product. (this is clearly impled in A).

This assumption is absolutely necessary for the argument to stand because if it were false, then there would be no way the author could say that a one day sale will help shops get rid of their damaged products because people would not buy it even if it were on sale.
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I believe enzinis has following doubts. There are two possibilities for for "NOT" --> modifies only signicant or entire statment. Right?

enzinis, I didn't notice.. before.
Don't equate NOT significant = Insignificant (This may be dangerous )
eg. NOT cold = hot ( it could be warm/ EXTREE HOT).

NOT [ so significant ] that customer will be unwilling to pay even sale price.
NOT [ so significant that customer will be unwilling to pay even sale price ].

In the current statment NOT should modify entire sentence.
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interesting discussion, well done x2suresh

+1 from me
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Why the attachement(s) are not clear?

I can not see many of the attachments nowadays clearly even if I click on the attached picture.



Do you guys also see the same way?
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Hey Tiger, if you click on the pic, it will become bigger and clearer. Hope it helps..

By the way, are GMAT PUMA ore TIGER?, lol, just kidding.



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