ankurmit wrote:IMO B


A) Spending on non-fiction books increased by more than 34% percent.. its too strict and we cant say weather spending increased by more than 34%

b) Shoppers were more likely to buy fiction books when they went to a bookstore than they were to buy non-fiction. .. a good contender...its using word likely.
Also if we go to stem we can see that new fiction books sale increased by 16%.There may be some old books also.So we will have 16% + some .It can be more than half ie more than 17%. Also we have word "likely" in statement B

It wins

c) The prices of books purchased at book-stores are higher than those of books purchased elsewhere --Irrevalent

d) Individual spending on the books increased, while institutional spending decreased.---irrevalent

e) The number of people who bought books from secondhand bookstores increased during this period. cant say

gmatrix wrote:hi.........its A

total spending on books purchased from all the sources increased by 34% whereas spending on fiction books grew by 16 %. So spending on non-fiction books must have increased by more than 34% percent so as to bring the overall % to 34 %.