Hi RiyaR,

In these types of "conversation prompts", you have to be very careful to focus on the specific points that the two people agree on and disagree on. The question asks us to Weaken Brad's objection, so we have to be clear on Brad's POINT (so that we can weaken/attack it).

Jennifer and Brad seem to agree that 10,000 fewer video rentals occurred in 1994 than in 1993. They also agree that Videorama (the new store) did some business (including SELLING videos). Brad's point is that the 4,000 videos that Videorama SOLD could NOT have accounted for 10,000 fewer rentals overall. THAT is the point that we need to counter. If we can find a way to show that 4,000 videos COULD have led to 10,000 fewer rentals, then his argument would be weakened.

Since you narrowed the options down to A and E, I'll focus on those.

Answer A: Videorama rented more videos than it sold. This is a tempting answer, but here's the problem: we don't know how MANY more. This wording implies that Videorama could have rented out 4,001 videos; combined with the 4,000 sold videos, we don't necessarily have a situation that descrease the total number of rentals by 10,000.

Answer E: People who own videos frequently loan them to their friends. According to this, if each of the 4,000 videos was FREQUENTLY loaned out to friends (who would have otherwise rented the videos), then we could very easily decrease the number of rentals by 10,000 (or more).

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich