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Vitacorp, a manufacturer, wishes to make its information booth at an industry convention more productive in terms of boosting sales. The booth offers information introducing the company’s new products and services. To achieve the desired result, Vitacorp’s marketing department will attempt to attract more people to the booth. The marketing director’s first measure was to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and personally invite them to visit the booth.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the marketing director’s first measure will contribute to meeting the goals of boosting sales?

(A) Vitacorp’s salespeople routinely inform each important customer about new products and services as soon as the decision to launch them has been made.

(B) Many of Vitacorp’s competitors have made plans for making their own information booths more productive in increasing sales.

(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended the booth.

(D) Most of Vitacorp’s best customers also have business dealings with Vitacorp’s competitors.

(E) Vitacorp has fewer new products and services available this year than it had in previous years.
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If A is true, A will weaken the case. If main customers are already informed about the latest products, then there is no reason for customers to come to the booth.
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current customers at booth --> more visitors who are not current customers --> more sales
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IMO C.
As Vitacorp's booth will be well attended because of existing customer, other people will get attracted towards it.
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Close call between A and C.

If we negate C, it actually crashes the conclusion of wanting more people to attend.So, basically a assumption answer choice.

In A,if they inform about the products then new customers might not attend the sales Booth.

Hence C.
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Vitacorp, a manufacturer, wishes to make its information booth at an industry convention more productive in
terms of boosting sales. The booth offers information introducing the company’s new products and services. To
achieve the desired result, Vitacorp’s marketing department will attempt to attract more people to the both. The
marketing director’s first measure was to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and
personally invite them to visit the booth.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the marketing director’s first measure
will contribute to meeting the goals of boosting sales?
(A) Vitacorp’s salespeople routinely inform each important customer about new products and services as soon
as the decision to launch them has been made.
(B) Many of Vitacorp’s competitors have made plans for making their won information booths more productive in
increasing sales.
(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended
the booth.
(D) Most of Vitacorp’s best customers also have business dealings with Vitacorp’s competitors.
(E) Vitacorp has fewer new products and services available this year than it had in previous years.
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The close contest is between A and C. You can negate A because it tell you that salesperson inform the important customers....but it doen't tell you anything about the aftereffects of this proces. Whereas in C he clearly mentions that "well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended
the booth", which is in favour of Marketing Director's plan
Therefore the answer is C
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+1 for C, more customers will come at booth on seeing that a few are already there - something like a snowball effect. Choice A actually weakens it, because if people know about the products, they will not prefer to come to the booth.
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Is this a Strength question or an Inference question?
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C for me as well.

Its a strengthen question. For inference question, the wording of question stem would say "most strongly supported by".

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+1 C,

A - weakens
B - irrelevant
C - supports, it shows how first measure will help achieve Vitacorp's main aim
D - irrelevant
E - irrelevant, we are talking about first measure, bringing best customers to the booth, not about fewer or more products.
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Vitacorp, a manufacturer, wishes to make its information booth at an industry convention more productive in
terms of boosting sales. The booth offers information introducing the company’s new products and services. To
achieve the desired result, Vitacorp’s marketing department will attempt to attract more people to the both. The
marketing director’s first measure was to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and
personally invite them to visit the booth.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the marketing director’s first measure
will contribute to meeting the goals of boosting sales?
(A) Vitacorp’s salespeople routinely inform each important customer about new products and services as soon
as the decision to launch them has been made.
(B) Many of Vitacorp’s competitors have made plans for making their won information booths more productive in
increasing sales.
(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended
the booth.
(D) Most of Vitacorp’s best customers also have business dealings with Vitacorp’s competitors.
(E) Vitacorp has fewer new products and services available this year than it had in previous years.

The close contest is between A and C. You can negate A because it tell you that salesperson inform the important customers....but it doen't tell you anything about the aftereffects of this proces. Whereas in C he clearly mentions that "well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended
the booth", which is in favour of Marketing Director's plan
Therefore the answer is C
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the question is tagged to GMAC paper tests, so that should be the source.
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Vitacorp, a manufacturer, wishes to make its information booth at an industry convention more productive in
terms of boosting sales. The booth offers information introducing the company’s new products and services. To
achieve the desired result, Vitacorp’s marketing department will attempt to attract more people to the both. The
marketing director’s first measure was to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and
personally invite them to visit the booth.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the marketing director’s first measure
will contribute to meeting the goals of boosting sales?
(A) Vitacorp’s salespeople routinely inform each important customer about new products and services as soon
as the decision to launch them has been made.
(B) Many of Vitacorp’s competitors have made plans for making their won information booths more productive in
increasing sales.
(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended
the booth.
(D) Most of Vitacorp’s best customers also have business dealings with Vitacorp’s competitors.
(E) Vitacorp has fewer new products and services available this year than it had in previous years.
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If increased attendance guarantees prospective customers, why not plant our own people as visitors, director? ;) All about ethics, I guess.

C is the best among the given options.
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C IMO too.
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Guys I have some observations regarding this CR question. I am a bit confused so I will try to explain my logic as clear as possible:

The question asks:
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the marketing director’s first measure will contribute to meeting the goals of boosting sales?

So I started looking for the marketing director’s first measure:
“The marketing director’s first measure was to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and personally invite them to visit the booth.”
So the marketing director first measure is related to current costumers.

The OG answer: C
“(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended the booth.”
The problem with this answer is that it is not related to “The marketing director’s first measure” which is: “to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and personally invite them to visit the booth”. (C) Is related attract new costumers only!

On the other hand, (D):
“(D) Most of Vitacorp’s best customers also have business dealings with Vitacorp’s competitors.”
Answer D is the only one related current costumers, that’s why I thought (D) was the best answer. It would be very likely that If most of Vitacorps's best costumers have dealings with Vitacorp's competitors, the strategy oriented to invite the costumers to the booth would increase the customer loyalty at expenses of Vitacorps competitors, is'nt it?.

Please help!!!
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C IMO too.
The OG answer: C
“(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended the booth.”
The problem with this answer is that it is not related to “The marketing director’s first measure” which is: “to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and personally invite them to visit the booth”. (C) Is related attract new costumers only!
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+1 C

Actually, it is related! If the current customers go to visit the booth, the other visitors will see that that booth is full of people, so they will interested in visit the booth too.
It seems that you don't know well the concepts behind CR, have you read the Powerscore CR Bible? It would be a great start!
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C IMO too.
The OG answer: C
“(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended the booth.”
The problem with this answer is that it is not related to “The marketing director’s first measure” which is: “to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and personally invite them to visit the booth”. (C) Is related attract new costumers only!

+1 C

Actually, it is related! If the current customers go to visit the booth, the other visitors will see that that booth is full of people, so they will interested in visit the booth too.
It seems that you don't know well the concepts behind CR, have you read the Powerscore CR Bible? It would be a great start!
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This is an oldish thread but I need to clarify a few things. First, I picked D, following TheRunawayFound's logic. Here's a few more thoughts why:

The measure is to call the best customers. This doesn't guarantee that a) they will go, b) that they will be present at a time that more people would be around the booth i.e. what if they go 8am when nobody's around? However if they DO go and there ARE people around, it might help.
Also, what if this company sells something which screams "niche product" in that people wandering around won't be interested. We don't know that, and we can't make any assumptions about the usability of the product. For example, I believe that the general public doesn't gather around whenever they see people gathered, they just surpass them.

My take for D: Vitacorp is trying to make its best customers become completely dedicated to Vitacorp. Since they are already its best customers, maybe they have some new products which they want to pass to those customers who at the time purchase them from Vitacorp's competitors. Therefore the measure is "invite them, and cut them from the competitors" therefore securing them.

Having said all that, I understand the reasons for C, I'm just not sold.
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Vitacorp, a manufacturer, wishes to make its information booth at an industry convention more productive in terms of boosting sales. The booth offers information introducing the company’s new products and services. To achieve the desired result, Vitacorp’s marketing department will attempt to attract more people to the both. The marketing director’s first measure was to instruct each salesperson to call his or her five best customers and personally invite them to visit the booth.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction that the marketing director’s first measure will contribute to meeting the goals of boosting sales?

(A) Vitacorp’s salespeople routinely inform each important customer about new products and services as soon as the decision to launch them has been made.
(B) Many of Vitacorp’s competitors have made plans for making their won information booths more productive in increasing sales.
(C) An information booth that is well attended tends to attract visitors who would not otherwise have attended the booth.
(D) Most of Vitacorp’s best customers also have business dealings with Vitacorp’s competitors.
(E) Vitacorp has fewer new products and services available this year than it had in previous years.
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Wait a minute - whats the significance of calling current customers then. If all we need is information booth that is well attended. Well we can achieve that - even by having current employees on the information booth - if just by looking at the crowd people are indeed getting attracted. I chose D - but one reasoning to negate D could be - first, 1. the custoemrs are VC's best customers, but VC may not be their best dealer, since they are buying products from VC's competitors as well. 2. How do we know that they would boast about VC convincingly and not talk about their competitor's fine points.

I do agree with the reasoning posted above for C.
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Although I got my answer correct, but I pre-assumed something different than given in the answer choice. Please check whether this my pre-assumption is also correct:

The marketing director wants to promote sales using word of mouth.

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Conclusion: To attract more people.
Premise: Invite 5 best customers to visit the booth.

Assumption: They will attract more people.

Something which validates this assumption will strengthen
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I feel that an answer choice that people who are called by Salesperson will probably attend the booth.. Isn't that more appropriate. I am not convinced with C as it assumes that mere calling and inviting top customers to booth will surely translate into their visit. And the rest will follow. Pls explain why implicit assumption has not been addressed
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I feel that an answer choice that people who are called by Salesperson will probably attend the booth.. Isn't that more appropriate. I am not convinced with C as it assumes that mere calling and inviting top customers to booth will surely translate into their visit. And the rest will follow. Pls explain why implicit assumption has not been addressed
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This is a strengthening type question, not an assumption type question. Therefore "must be true" criterion is not required to be satisfied here.
Calling the customers MAY (not MUST) result in a crowded booth, which in turn may draw more customers.

Although mere calling does not ensure the following events, but it may actually. Hence this is a strengthening statement.
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