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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-015
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Find the Flaw
Difficulty level: Medium

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A certain online grocer waives its delivery fee on any order above a stated amount. Two years ago the grocer lowered that amount from 80 dollars to 60 dollars. Since then the share of the grocer's orders that qualify for free delivery has risen from 30 percent to 55 percent. The grocer's analysts conclude that lowering the threshold has led customers to place larger orders.

The analysts' reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Adraws a conclusion about all of the grocer's customers from evidence about only those whose orders exceeded 60 dollars

Boverlooks the possibility that the total number of orders the grocer receives has risen over the two years

Ctakes a change that could only have been a consequence of larger orders to be the cause of those larger orders

Dtreats a rise in the share of orders meeting a standard as evidence that orders grew, when the standard fell

Erelies on percentages without reporting the number of orders on which each of those percentages is based

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