Critical Reasoning

frank1 wrote:Well this is from kaplan CAT 4
This was first question in the my CAT and after thinking for 4 minutes i still made mistake


OA is E

BUT
i think for this to be true QUESTION SHOULD HAVE THIS ASSUMPTION
ONLY those are COMPACT DISCS in which we get songs and other materials performed by artist.
or
ALL compact discs have songs or other thing performed by artist (rather than being a electronic medium)


Does compact disc mean that?
Well i have reading CD disc means optical media that carries electronic data(not necessarily things performed by artist).

Now,as being computer user,i have seen Compact discs with softwares,photos(which has nothing to take with price artist takes).So how is this answer correct.
The question doesnt says it is taking about CD of songs.

I think there should be some extra info in question for this answer to be right.Otherwise,suppose if it was CD with softwares or even BLANK CD how will that E make sense?

thanks

diebeatsthegmat wrote:
i dont understand what you wrote about, but i will tell why i chose E...

the argument says that price for selling CD increased so fast while production cost slightly increase... therefore, high price /high selling price must be blamed for the increasing price ( its like there are several stores selling fishes in the town, several stores suddenly increased price and this action leads to all stores in the town to increase selling price. its like a movement to devaluate. this is called " dirty play" and its illegal"

we have to weaken the conclusion, we have to find another reason to beat the conclusion in the text or find a sentence / answer choices which derectly weaken the conclusion and E does that. E says that beside cost, the company must pays other fees raising in time of production the CD so the high selling price is nature...

for an example: when you saw clothes to sell, the production cost includes free of making model , fee of buying cloths, fees of employing employee.... ...
all these + a percent of profit = sell

i hope you can understand my engrish

fitzgerald23 wrote:Frank if you go back to the original passage it specifically mentions "music companies" as being the sellers of the CDs. That means the question is clearly about music and not software.