CR - Infer conclusion

Among the more effective kinds of publicity that a hotel developer can get for a hotel location is to offer all potential new customers a free week at the hotel and to advertise this offer in the office of a well-recognized travel agency. The benefits of such an offer include not only a sure increase in new regular customers compared to the number of new regular customers that the hotel could expect without such an offer, but also a commission paid by the travel agency to the hotel developer.

Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?


(A) The number of people for whom experiencing one week at the hotel provides an adequate substitute for visiting the hotel on a regular basis is smaller than the number for whom the free week stimulates a desire to return on a regular basis. --- Correct, this is supported by the information above.

(B) Because the financial advantage of offering a free week through a travel agency usually accrues to the hotel developer, some travel agencies are unwilling to promote the free week. --Out of context

(C) In calculating the total number of customers that a hotel has attracted, hotel developers include the number of people who utilized the free hotel stay offer.-- Out of scope

(D) The effectiveness of offering a free week through a travel agency, measured in terms of regular customers for the hotel, is proportional to the recognizability of the agency in which the hotel was advertised. ---- Although the passage does talk about a well recognized travel agency, this would be too big a conclusion because the passage never talks of famous travel agencies vis a vis not so famous ones.

(E) Hotels that appeal to the average person visiting a travel agency draw more regular customers than hotels that do not appeal to the average person visiting a travel agency.--- Again incorrect for pretty much the same reasons as stated in D.

OA is A

The information offered by passage is that a hotel developer benefits from advertising his hotel in a well-recognized travel agency, offering a free week at the hotel through this advertisement. The passage claims that this offer results in an increase in regular customers (specifically, when compared to the number of new regular customers the hotel could expect without the offer) and a commission. The answer must be supported by this information.

Choice A directly relates to the conclusion that offering a free week results in an increase in new regular customers. If the free week served as an adequate substitute for people, then the potential new customers would become regular customers. In order for the offer to increase the number of regular customers, the group that the offer converts into regular customers must be larger than the group that is satisfied with only the free week. Therefore, choice A is correct.

Choice B is not supported by the argument. The argument is concerned with those hotel developers who do advertise in travel agencies.

Choice C is not supported by the argument. The argument does not address how the number of total customers is calculated. Whether or not this is the case has no basis in the argument, and the answer must be supported by information in the argument.

Choice D: The argument is already limited to well-recognized travel agencies, and the proportion of customers attracted to a hotel with respect to the degrees of agency recognizability is neither mentioned nor implied. We know only that the agencies that the argument deals with are classified as "well-recognized."

Choice E: There is no evidence in favor of or not in favor of hotels that do not advertise in agencies. The argument is only concerned with hotels that do advertise in agencies.

Choice A is correct.

karthikpandian19 wrote:Among the more effective kinds of publicity that a hotel developer can get for a hotel location is to offer all potential new customers a free week at the hotel and to advertise this offer in the office of a well-recognized travel agency. The benefits of such an offer include not only a sure increase in new regular customers compared to the number of new regular customers that the hotel could expect without such an offer, but also a commission paid by the travel agency to the hotel developer.

Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?


(A) The number of people for whom experiencing one week at the hotel provides an adequate substitute for visiting the hotel on a regular basis is smaller than the number for whom the free week stimulates a desire to return on a regular basis.

(B) Because the financial advantage of offering a free week through a travel agency usually accrues to the hotel developer, some travel agencies are unwilling to promote the free week.

(C) In calculating the total number of customers that a hotel has attracted, hotel developers include the number of people who utilized the free hotel stay offer.

(D) The effectiveness of offering a free week through a travel agency, measured in terms of regular customers for the hotel, is proportional to the recognizability of the agency in which the hotel was advertised.

(E) Hotels that appeal to the average person visiting a travel agency draw more regular customers than hotels that do not appeal to the average person visiting a travel agency.