Critical Reasoning

For the first time in history, more televisions than people can be found in American households. According to recent research, the average household has 2.55 residents and contains 2.73 televisions. However, by employing such costly manufacturing processes as plasma technology and flat screens, televisions are becoming too expensive for the typical consumer. As a result, the average number of residents per household will again surpass the number of televisions.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the argument above?

House parties at which numerous individuals gather to view popular television shows on one television set have increased three hundred percent during the past year.

More than one million legal immigrants enter the United States each year.

New devices such as video-enabled personal digital assistants and music players are increasingly purchased for use as a primary source of information and entertainment.

As new technologies become more commonplace, manufacturing and retail costs normally decline.

As a result of technological advances, new televisions are increasingly enabled with some features, such as Internet browsing, traditionally associated with other household devices.

IMO, the ans should be B.

Brent@GMATPrepNow wrote:A) Irrelevant
B) This requires us to know far too much about people who legally immigrate to the US. Do legal immigrants own a lot of televisions or do that own very few televisions? This answer choice could strengthen or weaken the conclusion. I'll eliminate it because a true GMAT question would not rely on one's knowledge of the demographics of the immigrants of a country.
C) This suggests that people are turning to different technologies to watch video content (which used to be the sole domain of TVs). If people turn to different technologies, then TV's may drop in popularity. Looks good.
D) Cheaper TVs would suggest that people buy more of them. This weakens the argument.
E) This suggests that TVs will become increasingly popular, in which case people will buy more of them. This weakens the argument.

It would seem that the best answer is C

Cheers,
Brent

Thanks!
Indeed the correct answer is C.
But how would one defines the scope in this argument? i thought C and E were out of scope.

Just a general question:
How do I generate the black box that highlights the answer once you move the mouse pointer over it?

Thanks!

Matan

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