One way to furnish a living room

Answer choices

1. A

   Helps Explain2% picked this

   Modular furniture, unlike standard furniture, is

   There is a common sense connection between mass-produced and lower cost. So this helps explain why standard furniture is so much cheaper than modular.

   2%
2. B

   Correct78% picked this

   The consumer demand for sofas sometimes increases more quickly than

   Why this is right

   This answer doesn't offer any distinction between modular and standard, so it isn't useful for explaining why modular is so much more expensive than standard.

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

   78%
3. C

   Helps Explain11% picked this

   The most fashionable designers tend to use modular

   There's a common sense connection between high fashion and higher prices. If modular furniture is often coming from the most fashionable designers, that gives us a possible way to explain its higher price.

   11%
4. D

   Helps Explain3% picked this

   Because modular furniture pieces are custom ordered, they are never put

   If we think that standard furniture is sometimes put on sale (common sense would tell us it is), then this answer presents a difference between modular and standard. Since standard furniture sometimes goes on sale but modular doesn't, that could explain why the average price of standard furniture is lower.

   3%
5. E

   Helps Explain6% picked this

   Modular sofas, on average, have a greater area of upholstered surfaces than

   Having to do more upholstering raises costs, in materials and labor. So this could help explain why the average price of modular furniture is higher.

   6%