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by freakomalay » Mon May 25, 2009 12:31 am
Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
(A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes.
(B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features.
(C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product.
(D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
(E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail.
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by scoobydooby » Mon May 25, 2009 3:05 am
to weaken the conclusion that once the market saturates, the video distributors will not face hard times

A. doesnt affect the conclusion

B. correct IMO. shows how video distributors may not face hard times by virtue of offering special video films

C. performance aspect is out of scope

D. supports the argument

E. out of scope

hence, B
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by dmateer25 » Mon May 25, 2009 8:18 am
I will go with D for this one.

(D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.


This tells us the the early buyers will be the ones who stop buying the video tapes, but the later buyers may continue to buy.

So if the later buyers continue to buy tapes, even if the market is saturated then the businesses may not face hard times.
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Re: Video Recorder

by vinaynp » Mon May 25, 2009 8:46 am
freakomalay wrote:Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
(A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes.
(B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features.
(C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product.
(D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
(E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail.
We need to showcase that businesses distributing videos do not face hard times even when saturation happens. This can be only true if they have alternate source of revenue from other segments of business.

A) Definition of Saturation doesn't help to prove that businesses distributing videos do not face hard times even when saturation happens.
C) Out of scope.
D) The passage never talks about novel products.
E) Out of scope.
B) It hits the nail correctly.

Hence, my answer B)
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by axat » Mon May 25, 2009 11:23 am
I will go with D.

It explains why the buyers lost interest in enjoying the benefits of the video recorder. Thus explains that the buoancy of the market cannot be commmented on solely on the basis of the typical behaviour of the early buyer.

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by vaishalijain7 » Mon May 25, 2009 11:28 am
IMO 'B'.

Properly suggest that even if market for video recorders will be saturated, video distributors won't loose business as they have other item for sale.
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by mehravikas » Mon May 25, 2009 7:30 pm
The conclusion is based on the premise that "many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it" and 'D' correctly gives a reasoning that weakens the argument.

OA please.
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by Musicolo » Tue May 26, 2009 7:45 am
I would go for D since the passage talks about early buyers and D weakens it by saying that early buyers are always like that. What about late buyers? I dont see how B could be the correct one since the alternative they offer is video features. The main passage does not distinguish between different types of videos.
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by vinaynp » Tue May 26, 2009 8:09 am
OA please.
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Re: Video Recorder

by cata1yst » Tue May 26, 2009 2:12 pm
freakomalay wrote:Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
(A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes.
(B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features.
(C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product.
(D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
(E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail.
D strengthens the argument that the businesses that distribute the videos will face hard times since "the early buyers tire of them" and move onto something else.

I am going with B.
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by caprion » Tue May 26, 2009 9:37 pm
I think D.
Early buyers state that the product was new (novel). And those who bought early dump early. Which is not true for other homes.

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by freakomalay » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:40 am
The IMO is D ..... It was quite a confusing question
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by sudeep_ar » Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:45 am
IMO.. B
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by SanjeevK » Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:50 pm
IMO: D

Option B suggests that among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features. These films are being distributed. Even then many early buyers apparently lost interest. This doesn't weaken the conclusion.

D clearly suggests that buying behaviour of early buyers is not representative of the whole buying group
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by sang5650 » Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:16 pm
OA is D
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