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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-018
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Boldface
Difficulty level: Hard

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Magazine editor: Print circulation has fallen for six straight years, and print advertising revenue with it. Our publisher has concluded that we should stop printing and appear only online. But local businesses buy most of our advertising, and they buy print because copies sit in waiting rooms and cafés, where readers meet their advertisements without looking for them. Dropping print would cost more in lost advertising than it would save in printing and delivery.

In the editor's argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

AThe first is evidence offered in support of the argument's conclusion; the second is that conclusion.

BThe first is a judgment the argument sets out to oppose; the second is the argument's own conclusion.

CThe first is a prediction the argument accepts; the second is a consideration raised against that prediction.

DThe first states the argument's main conclusion; the second offers evidence in support of that conclusion.

EThe first is an intermediate conclusion the argument draws; the second is a further conclusion drawn from it.

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