Sufficient & Necessary Questions - - Question 8

The only way that bookstores can profitably sell books at below-market prices is to get the books at a discount from ...

dianalazar November 30, 2021

Why not c

Can someone please explain C

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Jay-Etter January 19, 2022

We would diagram this question as
Sell below MP -> discount -> high sales -> Mass tastes or specialized market
The question stem is telling us that they dont cater to mass tastes so we could effectively revise our conditional chain as
Sell below MP -> discount -> high sales -> specialized market.
C is saying if no access to a specialized market then no discount. And that definitely could be true - it matches our conditional chain. Having a specialized market is a necessary condition for high sales, which is a necessary condition for a discount. If we fail to have a specialized market, then, we will fail to have a discount. Remember the question is asking CANNOT be true, and C could be true, so it's wrong. Hope this helps!