Book collector: The demand for

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: didn't know existed2% picked this

   Book collectors are now using the Internet to find book titles that they previously did

   The paragraph is talking about out-of-print books that someone seeks. For example, I might be seeking an out-of-print version of Atlas Shrugged from the 1950s. It used to be harder to track those down. Now, with the Internet, it's easier to do so. We don't ever hear about people finding titles they didn't know even existed.

   2%
2. B

   Unknown Comparison1% picked this

   Fewer people try to find books that are in print than try to find books that

   We don't have any information that allows us to count up how many people are trying to find books that are in-print vs. how many are trying to find books that are out of print. The fact that demand for out of print is surging doesn't mean it's overtaken demand for in-print books. We might say that the demand for left-handed scissors is increasing, which just means "more people want left-handed scissors this year than they did last year". We can't go from that sort of fact into a comparison like, "fewer people want right handed scissors than want left handed scissors".

   1%
3. C

   Correct89% picked this

   The amount of demand for out-of-print books is affected by the ease of

   Why this is right

   This actually matches our prediction pretty well. Since the stimulus presented a causal connection (X has been spurred by Y), the correct answer is synthesizing those claims. If we were told, "Pam is sleepy. This is because she spent all morning working on a crossword puzzle", then a correct answer might synthesize those and reinforce the causal connection by saying something like, "One's morning activity can influence how tired one feels". We know that the rise of the Internet, specifically its increased ease of finding out-of-print books, has spurred the increased demand for out-of-print books. And this answer is expressing that sort of causal connection.

   Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   89%
4. D

   Too Strong: most8% picked this

   The Internet's search capabilities make it possible to locate most

   All we know is that the Internet makes it easier to locate out-of-print books, but we can't get quantitatively specific and say that it's more than 50% of out-of-print books. For all we know, pre-Internet, we could locate about 10% of out-of-print books. Now, with the Internet, we can locate about 30% of out-of-print books. That conforms to the information (it's much easier to locate them now, 3 times easier in this example). But that doesn't conform to this answer, because it's still only possible to locate 30% of out-of-print books.

   8%
5. E

   Too Strong: only1% picked this

   Only people who have access to the Internet can locate

   All we know is that the Internet makes it easier to locate out-of-print books; we can't say that anyone without the Internet cannot locate out-of-print books. We know it's harder to locate them without the Internet. We were never told it's impossible to locate them without the Internet.

   1%