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Irina on October 28, 2019

@Meredith,

This is a strengthen EXCEPT question, meaning we are looking for an answer choice that will either weaken or have no impact on the argument. The argument concludes that renting from dealership is more worthwhile for locals than for tourists. (C) strengthens the argument because it strengthens one of the premises that it is difficult for tourists to determine which local dealerships offer rentals as travel agents generally lack this information. (E) on the other hand, has no impact on the argument because it only compares locals renting from a dealership versus locals renting from a car rental company, whereas the argument compares local versus tourist rentals from dealerships.

amf on May 31, 2020

what about d? That also only makes reference to the locals, and doesnt tell us anything about the tourist, so how does that strengthen?

Emil-Kunkin on March 30, 2024

De gives us reason to think that locals actually are able to take advantage of the deals, which directly supports the idea that locals are able to get a good deal, while tourists are not. While it does only strengthen one side of the equation, that is ok. If we say that X is greater than y anything that makes X bigger or Y smaller would work.