Market analyst: According to my research

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: "indifferent"3% picked this

   most consumers would be indifferent about which company's credit card

   Beyond this being an unavailable inference, this doesn't do anything to tie together the two sentences.

   3%
2. B

   Correct74% picked this

   credit card companies would not make the interest rates they charge on cards the

   Why this is right

   This takes a sneaky angle. Instead of asserting what credit card companies should be focusing on (paying off in full, using instead of cash/checks), it says what those companies shouldn't be focusing on. Since most credit card consumers don't intend to ever be paying the interest charges on their credit card accounts, they will not be very interested in knowing what interest rate a given credit card uses.

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

   74%
3. C

   Out of Scope: "banks"3% picked this

   most consumers would prefer paying interest on credit card debts over borrowing

   We have no ammunition for judging how consumers feel about borrowing money from banks. Also, this answer has nothing to do with tying together the two lead-in sentences. This is just looking back at the first sentence.

   3%
4. D

   Opposite5% picked this

   most consumers would ignore the length of time a credit card company allows to pay the balance

   Since most credit card consumers are planning to pay off their cards before interest accrues, they definitely would be interested in knowing the length of time they have to pay off the card before interest accrues.

   5%
5. E

   Too Strong: "most intense competition"16% picked this

   the most intense competition among credit card companies would be over the number of places that they can get

   This is tempting, because credit card customers definitely care about using cards as an alternative to cash/checks, so they would be interested in knowing how many businesses will accept card payment rather than cash/check payment. If this answer said "credit card companies would compete over the number of places ..." it would be a correct answer. It's just an overstretch of language to say this would be the most intense form of competition. Choice (B) has safer language. We know "interest rates" wouldn't be the #1 selling point, more than we know that "number of places accepting the card" would be the #1 selling point.

   16%