Critical Reasoning

In Washington County, attendance at the movies is just large enough for the cinema operators to make modest profits. The size of the county's population is stable and is not expected to increase much. Yet there are investors ready to double the number of movie screens in the county within five years, and they are predicting solid profits both for themselves and for the established cinema operators.

Which of the following, if true about Washington County, most helps to provide a justification for the investors'
prediction?

(A) Over the next ten years, people in their teenage years, the prime moviegoing age, will be a rapidly growing
proportion of the county's population.

(8) As distinct from the existing cinemas, most of the cinemas being planned would be located in downtown
areas, in hopes of stimulating an economic revitalization of those areas.

(C) Spending on video purchases, as well as spending on video rentals, has been increasing modestly each
year for the past ten years.

(0) The average number of screens per cinema is lower among existing cinemas than it is among cinemas still
in the planning stages.

(E) The sale of snacks and drinks in cinemas accounts for a steadily growing share of most cinema operators'
profits

OA A

A because it offers a suggestion as to how cinema traffic could increase with a steady population... thus increasing profits

IMO (E)..

because A states the increase in population without giving any reason.

mgmt_gmat wrote:IMO (E)..

because A states the increase in population without giving any reason.

IMO E as well. They state that the population increases but then is the population guarenteed to go to the movies to account for increase in revenue?

A- Correct, it is a logical assumption to assume that if there are more people that fall into the demographic most likely to go to the movies then that would result in more profits for the theatre

B- This has nothing to do with anything

C- This would weaken the conclusion instead of strengthening it

D- This is irrelevant. This addresses neither the expectations for increased profits nor the expectation that the population will remain steady

E- Snacks have nothing to do with the investors expecting adding more screens to the cinema to be profitable. In order for this to be the correct answer, the stimulus would have had to say something like "the investors are going to invest in a variety of new high priced snacks that have been successful in other counties".

it's asking "if statement ___ were true... what would justify the prediction?" only A accomplishes this

One more for A
And it also addresses the profits of the established cinemas predicted by the investors, so easily the best of the lot.

E is out of scope.
only A explains how the increase in revenue would be possible with a steady population.
The only explanation would be change in the proportion of population.
5 out of 10 go to movies.
in next few yrs, 9 out of 10 will go to movies. --> increased revenue.

[spoiler]'A'[/spoiler], since the qn indicates a 'solid profit' for established cinemas also.

Osirus@VeritasPrep wrote:A- Correct, it is a logical assumption to assume that if there are more people that fall into the demographic most likely to go to the movies then that would result in more profits for the theatre

B- This has nothing to do with anything

C- This would weaken the conclusion instead of strengthening it

D- This is irrelevant. This addresses neither the expectations for increased profits nor the expectation that the population will remain steady

E- Snacks have nothing to do with the investors expecting adding more screens to the cinema to be profitable. In order for this to be the correct answer, the stimulus would have had to say something like "the investors are going to invest in a variety of new high priced snacks that have been successful in other counties".

Hi What is the reason that option C is a weakener. In my understanding, since video games are becoming costly, people will turn to cinema for entertainment.
Please explain.

answer is A. Even though population is not increasing, option A saying population of movie going crowd is increasing.