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by rohit9359 » Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:00 pm
Q. Fact 1: Television advertising is becoming less effective: the proportion of brand names promoted on television that viewers of the advertising can recall is slowly decreasing.
Fact 2: Television viewers recall commercials aired first or last in a cluster of consecutive commercials far better than they recall commercials aired somewhere in the middle.
Fact 2 would be most likely to contribute to an explanation of fact 1 if which of the following were also true?
(A) The average television viewer currently recalls fewer than half the brand names promoted in commercials he or she saw.
(B) The total time allotted to the average cluster of consecutive television commercials is decreasing.
(C) The average number of hours per day that people spend watching television is decreasing.
(D) The average number of clusters of consecutive commercials per hour of television is increasing.
(E) The average number of television commercials in a cluster of consecutive commercials is increasing.

I am confused between [spoiler](D)[/spoiler] & [spoiler](E)[/spoiler]. The OA is [spoiler](E)[/spoiler]. Any explanation?

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Rohit.
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by Nailya » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:32 pm
Its E.

(D) The average number of clusters of consecutive commercials per hour of television is increasing. - people remember the first and last commercial in a cluster. The more clusters, the more commercials they remember.
(E) The average number of television commercials in a cluster of consecutive commercials is increasing. - number of commercials is increasing in one cluster but people only remember last and first, so all the commercials in the middle are not remembered. Number of remembered commercials is decreasing.

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by nicolette » Sun May 15, 2016 11:34 am
Answer E seems to be logical one out of other answer choices