Thanks for the question! So we’re looking for something that’ll match the principle in the stimulus. (A) is about a car company improving its warranty, which makes the profits decrease even though the market share increases. In the original stimulus, the bad effect seemed bad, but ended up being good. But here, the bad effect (lost profits) is actually just bad. And it results from the goal, making the market share increase. So since the two aren’t parallel in those ways, (A) is wrong.
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enochswalkAugust 18, 2023
Hi, Shinhe.
Answer choice (E) does the same thing. Revenue is reduced(library dues down = bad) but the desired result is still achieved. Why do we ignore a bad outcome in (E) but not in (A)?
Emil-KunkinAugust 20, 2023
In A the bad outcome seems to outweigh the good, in E the good outweighs the bad. We are told in A that in spite of an increase in market share, the company's profits fall. While there are certainly legitimate strategies that call for sacrificing profits in the short term to capture market share, as presented A feels like a bad thing. More so, A is missing the idea of a higher price decreasing the use of a thing, and thus the cost to maintain it fall. E has the element to it, which is the main reason I'd be confident picking e over a.
