Worldwide, more books were sold

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct59% picked this

   Last year there were more cookbooks sold that were not intended for beginners than

   Why this is right

   This combines the 2nd and 3rd claims. The 2nd claim says number of cookbooks sold was highest ever The 3rd claim says the % of cookbooks sold that were not intended for beginners was highest ever So if last year's slate of cookbooks had the highest percentage ever of "advanced" cookbooks, and last year's slate of cookbooks was the biggest raw total of cookbooks ever, then that would have to output the greatest number of advanced cookbooks sold in one year. How do we know last year's % for advanced (i.e. not intended for beginner) was highest ever? We know it's the all time high, because last year was the first time it ever passed the 50% most threshold. If numbers help you, here are some: Last Year All years prior Total Cookbooks 1 million < 1 million Sold % of cookbooks sold that > 50% < 50% were not for beginners A bigger percentage of a bigger total is why we know not-beginner cookbooks had its best year ever.

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

   59%
2. B

   Out of Scope: best-selling5% picked this

   The best-selling cookbook last year was a cookbook that was intended

   We don't have any information at all about which type of cookbook sold best.

   5%
3. C

   Unsupported10% picked this

   Sales of cookbooks intended for beginners were lower last year than

   It's possible sales were lower or higher. There are two competing forces: - it was a bad year for beginners' cookbooks, because a lower percentage than ever of cookbooks sold were for beginners. but - it was also a good year for beginners' cookbooks, because there were more cookbooks sold overall A smaller percentage of a bigger total may come out to be bigger than before, smaller, or around the same, depending on how far that percentage vs. that total moved in their respective directions.

   10%
4. D

   Too Strong: most23% picked this

   Most of the cookbooks purchased last year that were not intended for beginners were purchased

   We know that professional cooks bought more cookbooks than ever before last year. But professional cooks might still only be 1% of the people buying cookbooks. There aren't that many professional cooks in the world, relative to everyone else. Even if they bought cookbooks at the same rate we clueless folk do, they still would be a tiny, tiny market share. So we can't support this answer, and common sense would tell us it's almost certainly not true in any real world that resembles ours. This trap answer is trying to get us to think that, "Since there's an uptick in advanced cookbooks, there's probably a lot of professional cooks buying cookbooks." But all kinds of people buy cookbooks "not intended for beginners". If you're intermediate or advanced or professional, you're buying books that are "not intended for beginners".

   23%
5. E

   Too Strong: sold more copies3% picked this

   Problem-Free Cooking sold more copies last year than did any cookbook written

   We don't know if Problem-Free Cooking sold a single copy, let alone more than any other cookbook of a given type. We were only told that it was available on every continent.

   3%