Critical Reasoning

Twenty percent of the stores in Morganville's downtown shopping district will fail within five years because they will be competing directly with the Savemart discount department store newly opened in East Morganville. The downtown shopping district has lost business at this rate before and has always completey rebounded. Confidence that it will rebound again from the losses it is now about to suffer is ill founded, however, because _____________________

A) the stores likely to be put out of business by direct competition from Savemart are the downton shopping district's anchor stores, on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend

B) the bus line that has long connected the downtown area of Morganville with East Morganville has a tradition of carrying shoppers who reside in East Morganville into downtown Morganville to shop

C) when the downtown shopping district has rebounded before, the business premises of a failed business were typically taken over by a business of the same kind as had been there before

D) Savemart's business plan for the East Morganville store is based on earning low profits, if any, during the first 5 years of store's existence

E) it is conceivable that the downtown shopping district could shrink substantially without collapsing altogether

OA - A . I got it using POE.
Somehow not convinced with the answer .Not sure what is wrong with D .
Please share your views

Confidence that it will rebound again from the losses it is now about to suffer is ill founded, however, because _____________________

This sentence states that the rebound is baseless this time and the store is continuing to suffer. The best answer choice that describes a more concrete loss is A.

D goes out to explain about profits, existence and such, which are irrelevant before choice A.


A) the stores likely to be put out of business by direct competition from Savemart are the downton shopping district's anchor stores, on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend

We need to find an answer choice that works as a reason supporting the argument that this time the downtown district will not be able to rebound. If choice D is true--if the new competitor's business plan (ie, Savemart's business plan) is based on making low profits in the first five years--then it suggests that the downtown district WILL be able to rebound (because the competitor only plans on making low profits anyways). So, choice D does the opposite of what we want. On the other hand, if choice A is true, then there is a unique reason for believing that this time the Downtown district won't be able to rebound.

I can't understand what choice A is saying. Could you please translate it ? specifically : on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend ? seems like some word is missing

heshamelaziry wrote:I can't understand what choice A is saying. Could you please translate it ? specifically : on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend ? seems like some word is missing

Choice A is written fine. It is telling us that the kind of stores that will be put out of business are very important. The stores that Savemart will put out of business are "anchor" stores which draw shoppers to the mall in the first place. So, if these stores are put out of business, it strongly suggests that all of the stores at the mall will be hurt.

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"whose" is possessive and is referring to a trait that these anchor stores own. On whose ability? On their ability.

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heshamelaziry wrote:I can't understand what choice A is saying. Could you please translate it ? specifically : on whose ability to draw shoppers many of the other downtown stores depend ? seems like some word is missing

Choice A is written fine. It is telling us that the kind of stores that will be put out of business are very important. The stores that Savemart will put out of business are "anchor" stores which draw shoppers to the mall in the first place. So, if these stores are put out of business, it strongly suggests that all of the stores at the mall will be hurt.

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"whose" is possessive and is referring to a trait that these anchor stores own. On whose ability? On their ability.

Understand now. Thank you.