Logical reasoning PrepTest 107 · Section 1 · Question 9

Question prompt

Jean: Our navigational equipment Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right

Credited answer: D

The notes below walk through why it fits the stem and how to eliminate the rest.

Argument or Facts

Argument/Argument

Valid or Flawed

Flawed/Flawed

Question Type

Point at Issue Questions

Stimulus Summary

J: We dominate the high-end, but there’s a market at a lower price point, so we should sell a cheaper model to increase overall sales.
T: If we do that, people might think all our equipment is cheap, hurting overall sales.

Answer Anticipation

It can’t get much clearer that there’s a point at issue here than with Tracy opening her argument with, “I disagree.” Now, we just need to figure out what she disagrees with.
Jean ends her argument with a recommendation - the company should move into the low-end market, increasing their overall sales.
Tracy, however, disagrees. She believes that the move might hurt their company’s association with quality, leading to a decrease in sales. So she doesn’t believe they should move into that market.
Since the two disagree over the wisdom of making a move into this new market, the correct answer should reflect that.

Answer choices

  1. A
    There is a greater Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited
    Both Jean and Tracy speak to overall sales, so neither breaks out the potential for profit in a specific market, making this answer out of scope.
  2. B
    The proposed cheaper model, Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B is not credited
    Jean believes that such a model would increase overall sales, so she must believe that at least some customers would buy that model but not the high-cost one. Tracy, however, doesn’t speak to who would buy the low-cost model, so this answer is out of scope of her argument.
  3. C
    The company could dominate Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C is not credited
    Neither speaker discusses dominating the low-cost market, so this answer is out of scope.
  4. D
    The company would no Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D matches the stem
    Jean says, in her conclusion, that the company could continue to dominate the high-end market after releasing the low-cost model, so she disagrees with this answer. Tracy states that moving into the low-cost market would put the competitors in the high-cost market on equal footing with them and hurt overall sales, suggesting that they wouldn’t continue to dominate that market with this move, agreeing with this answer. Since they have opposite opinions of this answer, it’s correct.
  5. E
    Decreased sales of the Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited
    Jean doesn’t raise a causal relationship between the sales of the two types of models. Tracy believes that simply offering the low-cost model would decrease sales of the high-cost model. So neither of them brings up this particular relationship.

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Question analytics

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Answer choice distribution

  1. A 9%
  2. B 3%
  3. C 8%
  4. D Credited 80%
  5. E 1%

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