#13 - Concept Reference, Must Be True

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Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (C).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):


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Question Line Reference
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=11038)

The correct answer choice is (C)

The justification for the correct answer can be found on:

(Lines 5-15)

Like many of the questions above (and many Reading Comprehension questions in general), this one can certain be answered with a prephrase. If some channel flow diversion is to be eliminated, there can be only two ways to go about it: either increase enforcement or reduce the root cause, which is discussed in the first paragraph of the passage—quantity discounts. Only (C) presents one of these two options, so (C) is the correct answer choice.

[mariahenain]

Hello.

I was wondering how you deducted from the passage that you need to reduce the root cause (being quantity discounts) or increase enforcement. Am I missing this in the passage?

Additionally, why are the other answer choices, specifically D, incorrect?

[AthenaDalton]

Hi Maria,

The text of the passage that's useful in answering this question is on lines 5 through 15. This area of the passage specifically notes in a discussion of channel flow diversion that "quantity discounts from manufacturers may motivate" gray marketing. In other words, the fact that producers give a discount to manufacturers who buy in bulk may motivate those manufacturers to turn around and re-sell the goods at the higher market price.

Answer choice (C) tells us that if producers stopped giving discounts to manufacturers, they wouldn't be able to make a profit by re-selling those goods. This is essentially a re-statement of what's in the passage. This is precisely the kind of answer we are looking for on the Reading Comp section.

Answer choice (D) discusses pre- and post-sale service, which is a topic discussed in the context of parallel importing and trademark owners. For answer choice (D) to be correct, we need to be able to find direct support for this idea in the passage itself. While the passage discusses how post-sale service is part of a company's goodwill, it doesn't give us direct support for how giving manufacturers control over the post-sale services would impact gray marketing.

In sum, if you can't find direct, clear support for an answer choice in the passage, you can set it aside.

Good luck studying!

Athena Dalton

[annabelle.swift]

Hi! I'm wondering why Answer E is incorrect.

My thinking was that consumers already do not receive the extended product when they buy in the gray market, so taking away the extended product would not further discourage consumers from buying in the gray market. If consumer demand for the gray market does not decrease, then channel flow diversion will not decrease.

Is this sound reasoning? Thank you!

[evelineliu]

Hi Annabelle,

(E) is wrong because manufacturers have never given an "extended product" to consumers who buy in the gray market, but this hasn't hindered channel flow diversion.

Hope that helps,
Eveline