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by resilient » Fri May 02, 2008 4:05 pm
The public often protests when an unregulated service industry is found to be corrupt. However, regulation often leads to increased costs for the consumer. Fewer companies survive in a regulated market, leading to decreased competition and higher prices.The public then responds negatively to the increased costs of these services.

The statements above best support which of the following?

a.Service industries should not be regulated.
b.The public should not protest unregulated services.
c.Only unregulated services are subject to public protest.
d.The public is sometimes the cause of its own complaints.
e.Decreased competition always leads to increased prices.


qa is d but doesnt the boundary word "sometimes" make teh answer wrong? I chose b becase d because of the word SOMETIMES.
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by loki.gmat » Mon May 26, 2008 11:38 pm
well at first look, i have also marked B as my answer choice. But after second look, D seems to be more appropriate for the following reasons.

1)rarely in GMAT, an extreme answer option is the correct.choice B says that "The public should not protest unregulated services", which i think is a bit extreme.

2)D says that "The public is sometimes the cause of its own complaints" which might be true in some cases which can be seen in the last sentence "The public then responds negatively ("complaints") to the increased costs of these services.".
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by rattanas » Tue May 27, 2008 2:15 am
guess the answer is "d" as its moderate language...sometimes suggests that nothing extreme is used.....so not necesari;y public is always wrong but sometimes its the cause of its own complaints
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by chidcguy » Tue May 27, 2008 4:55 am
This can be a very easy Q, if we get it ingrained in our mind that Most of the times words like should,will,always,only,never,must carry a wrong answer. RC is a better example of this.
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by khanshainur » Tue May 10, 2016 5:29 am
i feel it's D looks good
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