Community activist: If Venicelpark wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Venicelpark. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has
experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district.

The answer to which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the community activist’s argument.

A. The community activists in other towns successfully have affirmed the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns.

B. A large percentage of the residents of Venicelpark currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Venicelpark.

C. In towns with healthy central shopping districts, some of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period.

D. Most of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Venicelpark will be drawn from Venicelpark.

E. Most of the newly opened SaveAll stores never make losses during their first five years of operation.


OA E

Source: Veritas Prep