Goreville~Colson - weaken CR

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Goreville~Colson - weaken CR

by aj5105 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:55 pm
Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long. In the five years since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.
B. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.
C. At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.
D. Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville’s population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.
E. Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson’s.

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Re: Goreville~Colson - weaken CR

by logitech » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:11 pm
Conclusion: those locations will not stay vacant for long

So we need an answer that says that locations might STAY VACANT.

I am between B and C, but I will go with B.

It seems like locations still have business and they are not closing their doors to the business.

B. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.
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by maihuna » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:20 pm
E is the only one that came close to be an weaken one in this weird argument.

Situation: Due to competition with SpendLess or Colson's though many stores will close new one will take place of those shops.

Reasoning: If the new stores that are opening or closing were selling different items than that of either of these two, why the hell they will get competition from these two shops.

A. If after SpendLess opened Colson's customers were to buy less at Colson's doesn't help to understand how other shops will get less buyers.
B. Type of shop's opened is outside the scope of this reasoning.
C. Stores are un-changed strenthen the reasoning that shops which will go out of business will be replaced by other.
D. The issue is about last five years not about coming five years
E. Yes, as noted above it help weaken the argument, that shops going out of business and newer one taking their place is because of some other reson than mentioned.

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by logitech » Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:48 am
maihuna wrote:E is the only one that came close to be an weaken one in this weird argument.

Situation: Due to competition with SpendLess or Colson's though many stores will close new one will take place of those shops.

Reasoning: If the new stores that are opening or closing were selling different items than that of either of these two, why the hell they will get competition from these two shops.

A. If after SpendLess opened Colson's customers were to buy less at Colson's doesn't help to understand how other shops will get less buyers.
B. Type of shop's opened is outside the scope of this reasoning.
C. Stores are un-changed strenthen the reasoning that shops which will go out of business will be replaced by other.
D. The issue is about last five years not about coming five years
E. Yes, as noted above it help weaken the argument, that shops going out of business and newer one taking their place is because of some other reson than mentioned.
E actually STRENGTHENS the argument. Very common wrong answer:

Wrong Direction.
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by ronniecoleman » Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:12 am
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:55 pm Post subject: Goreville~Colson - weaken CR
Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long. In the five years since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.
B. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.
C. At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.
D. Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville’s population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.
E. Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson’s


conclusion: those locations will not stay vacant for long
now try to weaken this conclusion!!!

the only way the conclusion can be weaken in this case is if we can prove that we are comparing apple with oranges...

IMO B does that to perfection :wink:
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by mjjking » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:57 am
B makes sense.

New stores have opened and prospered because they were cheaper than Colson's. But as the new dep.store is a cheap one as well, these stores will close.
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by umaa » Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:58 pm
IMO B. B is the only choice which weakens the argument. What is OA?

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by bec.amit » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:44 pm
IMO B

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by umaa » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:25 am
aj5105, Can you post the OA? Its been a month since you posted.

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by NSNguyen » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:34 am
IMO: E
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Re: Goreville~Colson - weaken CR

by nervesofsteel » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:40 am
aj5105 wrote:Although the discount stores in Goreville’s central shopping district are expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant for long. In the five years since the opening of Colson’s, a nondiscount department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson’s.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Many customers of Colson’s are expected to do less shopping there than they did before the SpendLess store opened.
B. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson’s opened have been discount stores.
C. At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it as it ever had.
D. Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville’s population will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.
E. Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that are not available at either SpendLess or Colson’s.
B Should be the answer...

When Colson’s non discount stores opened .. .. then Discount stores were opened in place of vacant spaces...
Now with close of a discount store.. there is a possibility that no store will replace as there are already so many discount stores in place...

also the trend of Non discount stores cannot be applied to Discount stores...

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by bend_the_rulz » Fri May 01, 2009 5:20 pm
I will go with B.
Picture this, The stores that kept on opening and closing were DISCOUNT STORES. There was no Spendless discount department store earlier and any discount store that opened used to fail because it could not compete
with Colson’s. Still new Discount Deptt stores kept on opening because there was no Spendless Store.
Now that there is a Spendless discount store, no more Discount stores will open.

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by aj5105 » Fri May 01, 2009 7:34 pm
OA B

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by veenu08 » Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:47 pm
can someone please explain how B can be the answer.Since Colson's has been used just as an e.g to explain the situation that new stores opened up in place of the closed stores so the same will happen in the case of spendless stores, so what a difference it makes whether it was a discount store that opened up at colson's time or not?

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by GMATGuruNY » Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:20 am
Although the discount stores in Goreville's central shopping district are
expected to close within five years as a result of competition from a SpendLess
discount department store that just opened, those locations will not stay vacant
for long. In the five years since the opening of Colson's, a nondiscount
department store, a new store has opened at the location of every store in the
shopping district that closed because it could not compete with Colson's.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. Many customer's of Colson's are expected to do less shopping there than they
did before the SPendless store opened.

B. Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district
since Colson's opened have been discount stores.

C. At present, the central shopping district has as many stores operating in it
as it ever had.

D. Over the course of the next five years, it is expected that Goreville's
opulation will grow at a faster rate than it has for the past several decades.

E. Many stores in the central shopping district sell types of merchandise that
are not available at either Spendless or Colson's.
This CR makes an ANALOGY.
The premise is about X: Colson's NONDISCOUNT department store.
The conclusion is about Y: the SpendLess DISCOUNT department store.

The argument assumes that X is linked to Y: that what was true for Colson's (a NONDISCOUNT store) will be true for Spendless (a DISCOUNT store).
To break the link, the correct answer must show how Colson's and Spendless are DIFFERENT.

Answer choice B: Increasingly, the stores that have opened in the central shopping district since Colson's opened have been DISCOUNT stores.
This answer choice highlights a key DIFFERENCE between Colson's and Spendless. Colson's is a NONDISCOUNT store. Thus, the recently opened DISCOUNT stores have been able to compete with it. But Spendless is itself a DISCOUNT store. Its arrival likely will DISCOURAGE other discount stores from opening, invalidating the conclusion that the central shopping district will be able to fill its vacancies.

The correct answer is B.
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