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by ketkoag » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:14 am
Ian please lemme know what could be the difficulty level of this question below? level RANGE 1 to 5, 5 being the highest. please help.
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Among the more effective publicity that publishers can get for a new book is to have excerpts of it published in a high-circulation magazine soon before the book is published. The benefits of such an excerption include not only a sure increase in sales but also a fee paid by the magazine to the book's publisher.

Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?

A) The number of people for whom seeing an excerpt of a book in a magazine provides an adequate substitute for reading the whole book is smaller than the number for whom the excerpt stimulates a desire to read the book

B) Because the financial advantage of excepting a new book in a magazine usually accrues to the book's publisher, magazine editors are unwilling to publish excerpts of the book

C) In calculating the total number of copies that a book has sold, publishers include sales of copies of magazines that featured in an excerpt of the book

D) The effectiveness of having excerpts of a book published in a magazine, measured in terms of increased sales of a book, is proportional to the circulation of the magazine in which the excerpts are published.

E) Books that are suitable for excerpting in high-circulation magazines sell more copies than books that are not suitable for excerpting.
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by Ian Stewart » Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:02 am
This question has been discussed already, so I won't explain the solution, but it does strike me as at least an above average difficulty level question (4/5 on a 1-5 scale), in part because the language of the correct answer is a bit difficult to decode. Still, if you focus on the scope of the question, it's possible to eliminate all of the incorrect answers. That said, I do find it much easier to gauge the difficulty level of Quant questions.
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by ketkoag » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:29 pm
Thanks a lot for your reply Ian.
I just wanted to know about the difficulty level coz i stuck up in this question and was a bit confused.
I got the explanation as soon as i saw the OA, so i am ok with it now..
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by cramya » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:28 pm
Ian,
My bad for prolonging this post. Why do u say A is a better conclusion than D?

I feel D can be inferred from whats given than A.I looked at the other post and it looks like the OA is A.

Please advice.

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by kris77 » Fri May 13, 2016 10:38 pm
Don't have much explanation for it, A seems good.