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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-019
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Weaken
Difficulty level: Medium

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A certain university press sells nearly all of its scholarly monographs to research libraries. To raise the revenue it earns from each title, the press plans to cut the price of every monograph by a third; it reasons that a library that now buys one copy of a title will then buy two, so that the revenue from each title will end up one third higher than it is now.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the press's reasoning?

AThe press's cost of printing a monograph falls only slightly when it prints twice as many copies of it.

BOnce the price cut takes effect, the press will publish fewer new monographs each year than it does now.

CA research library that already holds a monograph has little use for a second copy of it.

DThe press's monographs are priced well above the comparable monographs issued by other university presses in the same fields.

ESales to individual readers, which are now few, would also increase if the price of each monograph fell.

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