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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-011
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Find the Assumption
Difficulty level: Hard

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For twenty years a certain manufacturer has sold household paint only in four-litre tins, at 40 dollars a tin. Next spring it will also offer one-litre tins at 13 dollars, which is 30 percent more per litre. Company surveys show that most people repainting a single room need less than two litres. The marketing director concludes that adding the small tin will increase the company's total revenue from paint.

The director's conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions?

AMost people who repaint a single room prefer to buy no more paint than the job requires.

BNo other manufacturer of household paint currently sells paint in one-litre tins.

CProducing and filling four one-litre tins costs the company no more than producing and filling one four-litre tin.

DThe one-litre tins will not be bought mainly by customers who would otherwise buy four-litre tins.

EEvery customer who needs less than two litres of paint will choose a one-litre tin over a four-litre tin.

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