Information and IdeasHardInference about a shop's clientele
Information and Ideas practice question
The hardware shop stocks tools in only one make, the most expensive on the market, and keeps no cheap alternatives. Yet it has traded profitably on the same corner for fifty years. A reasonable inference is that its customers ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. are largely tradespeople who value durability over price.Correct
- B. are unaware that cheaper tools exist.
- C. buy tools rarely and by accident.
- D. are mainly tourists.
Answer: A. are largely tradespeople who value durability over price.
Expensive, durable, fifty years of custom.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. are unaware that cheaper tools exist.
- Cheaper tools are on the market, so customers know of them.
- C. buy tools rarely and by accident.
- Rare accidental purchases would not sustain fifty years.
- D. are mainly tourists.
- Tourists rarely buy expensive tools.
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