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by diebeatsthegmat » Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:06 am
For several years, Nighttime News attracted fewer viewers than World News, which broadcasts its show at the same time as Nighttime News. Recently,the producers of Nighttime News added personal interest stories and increased coverage of sports and weather. The two programs no.w have a roughly equal number of viewers. Clearly, the recent programming changes persuaded viewers to switch from World News to Nighttime News.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the author relies?
(A) Viewers are more interested in sports and weather than in personal interest stories.
(B) The programming content of Nighttime News is more closely aligned with the interests of the overall audience than is the content of World News.
(C) Some World News viewers liked the new Nighttime News programming better than they liked the World News programming.
(D) There are other possible causes for an increase in the number of viewers of Nighttime News, including a recent ad campaign that aired on many local affiliates.
(E) The quality of World News will remain constant even if Nighttime News improves.
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by GmatKiss » Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:19 am
Mixed with B and C.
How to choose between them?
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by mankey » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:17 am
Even I am a little confused between B and C.

But to me, C looks closer to the answer since in the given passage, the author takes the assumption that there was a switch of audience from one channel to the other whereas this is equally likely that the switch wasnt so much responsible but there was an absolute increase in the number of viewers.

Will appreciate if an expert could also tell his/her view.

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by killer1387 » Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:28 am
OVERALL AUDIENCE IS NOT WITHIN THE SCOPE OF ARGUMENT. WE ARE ACTUALLY CONCERNED ONLY WITH THE PEOPLE SWITCHING FROM ONE CHANNEL TO THE OTHER.
SO B IS ACTUALLY NOT AFFECTING ANYTHING AS WHAT WE HAVE TO DO OF OVERALL AUDIENCE.

HENCE c IS STRONG CONTENDER HERE.ALSO NEGATION OF c RENDERS ARGUMENT INVALID.
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by navami » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:37 am
C +1
This time no looking back!!!
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by diebeatsthegmat » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:19 pm
GmatKiss wrote:Mixed with B and C.
How to choose between them?
me too but cant decide which one is good, b or c but first time i thought b now rethought i would choose C
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by badpoem » Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:32 am
I know that the OA is C, but I shall be going against the tide here, primarily because this is the 3rd instance of a MGMAT Assumption CR that baffles me.

If we negate B - The programming content of Nighttime News is NOT more closely aligned with the interests of the overall audience than is the content of World News. - Then would people have switched?

But if we negate C, it turns out to be - Some World News viewers DID NOT like the new Nighttime News programming better than they liked the World News programming.

That still stands true, does it not? Because some people indeed did not switch. Had everyone liked and switched, then Nighttime News would have had more viewers perhaps.

Where am I going wrong?

I, myself have posted two questions from the same category, the answers to which I am not yet convinced with.

Besides, I do not know how well I shall be able to express this - In an assumption question, using "some" as part of the assumption always makes it vulnerable to criticism. I mean the assumption then does not stand true for all or does not stand true in general. If we are trying to fill in the gap between the premises and the conclusion, can a point that addresses "some" or part of the group, be held as an assumption in general?

I sincerely hope that someone from MGMAT provides requisite expertise here.
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