Critical Reasoning (CR) | A recent survey indicates that the average number of books read annual

In Critical Reasoning, we have to be super careful about details of what the passage and answer choices say.

In this case, (A) doesn't say just, "fewer books." Rather, it indicates that libraries specifically have purchased fewer books.

So, since libraries lend books and thus multiple people read one library book, the fact that libraries have purchased fewer books would explain how it could be that, even though the average number of books read annually per capita has declined, most bookstores reported increased profits. After all, if people are not able to borrow "contemporary novels" from libraries, if they want to read them, they have to purchase them from bookstores.

Then, in the case of (B), notice that
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Statistics : Posted by MartyMurray • on 16 Nov 2019, 16:45 • Replies 12 • Views 5582

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