company manufactures a device

[youngdynamite]

Steve: Our company manufactures a device
that stores and plays electronic music.
Customers buy music over the Internet and
download it using our software. The downloaded
music can be played on only our devices. This is
because we have incorporated technology that
prevents the music from being copied, which is
necessary to protect the rights of the artists.

Justine: Music purchased and downloaded
using your company’s software should be compatible
with other music devices manufactured
by different companies. If a customer were to
purchase a CD of the music, she would be able to
play that CD in any brand of CD player. Your company
is trying to create an unfair advantage by
forcing consumers who download music using
your popular software to also buy one of your
electronic devices rather than another manufacturer’s
device.



Which of the following is an underlying
assumption of Justine’s conclusion?

(A) Copyright protections are no longer
necessary in the twenty-first century.
(B) The electronic devices manufactured
by Steve’s company are not as wellmade
as the devices made by other
companies.
(C) Other manufacturers of electronic
music players don’t also have popular
software that customers could choose.
(D) Customers who buy and download
electronic music files using the Internet
no longer purchase CDs.
(E) Forcing customers who use the popular
software created by Steve’s company
to also buy an electronic device from
that company would create an unfair
advantage.

[kkjl]

C is the best

[youngdynamite]

Originally Posted by kkjl

C is the best

please support your answer !
you did not say why you want to choose C ...we want to listen your opinion

[abhi84v]

IMO C.

Let us use elimination. The conclusion is that Steve gets an unfair advantage. So E is a conclusion, not an assumption and is out.

A is irrelevant.

if B is true it does not give Steve an unfair advantage

D - Purchasing CDs does not mean one does not downlaod music or vice-vers

Now let us come to C.

If other manufacturers could make popular software so that customers could choose Steve's company then does not get the advantage Justine claims.

So it is C which is the underlying assumption

[antonydavis]

I am for C as well,
I say this because with POE only C and E come close to the answer.
And C , In effect what is being said is that because there is no other company that has this kind of a system gives you an unfair advantage. If other companies are making the same product then Justine does not need to say what he said. I am a newbie what do you think?

[WoundedGmatter]

IMO E
By negation test, E weakens the conclusion.

[maverick312]

I go with E