Critical Reasoning

Many buyers of fashion clothing are inclined to contribute to charitable organizations, and are more likely to purchase clothing from companies that donate a portion of their profits to charity. Next weekend, a variety of fashion clothing retailers will hold sample sales at a downtown event; the event's organizers plan to hand out flyers listing which of the retailers donate to charity from their profits, in the hope of increasing those companies' sales at the event.

Which of the following, if true, most calls into question the appropriateness of the organizers' plan?


The cost to the organizers of designing and printing the flyers is equivalent to half an average day's worth of sample-sale profits for one of the retailers at the event.


Many of the retailers who donate profits to charity do so in order to garner tax breaks, rather than for purely altruistic reasons.


Among the retailers who will hold sample sales at next week's event, those that donate a portion of their profits to charity far outnumber those that do not.


Of the retailers at the event that donate a portion of their profits to charity, most have publicized those donations extensively in their advertising.


Many of the retailers who donate a portion of their profits to charity vary that portion from season to season, allocating a greater portion of their profits to charity during peak sales seasons.

(D) for me.


what's the OA?

ice_rush wrote:(D) for me.


what's the OA?

Its better to explain why you choose D and how you eliminated other choices.

if the retailers who are planning to donate to charity have ALREADY publicized about their donations...then how would handing out fliers about this information, which is already public, would help increase the sales? It certainly would not.



hope this helps!

I also picked D. My reasoning: If people already know about the companies that donate to charity then handing out flyers will be of no use.

However, C was also a little tempting. My reasoning: If there are many more companies who donate to charity than it might be difficult for those companies to increase their profits because of so much competition. But this argument is a little bit of a stretch, hence why I went with D.

What's the OA?

IMO D

D seems fine..