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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-029
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Complete the Argument
Difficulty level: Hard

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The Ferrand parcel service charges 5 dollars for a parcel weighing up to two kilograms and a flat 11 dollars for one over two kilograms but not over five. Last year it raised the lower charge to 6 dollars, leaving the higher charge unchanged, and expected lower-band revenue to rise by about a fifth. Instead lower-band revenue fell by nearly a fifth, while revenue from the band above rose sharply. This outcome is not surprising, since ______

Which of the following most logically completes the argument?

Athe service's cost of handling a parcel rises steeply with the parcel's weight.

Ba charge that rises by a fifth will always reduce by more than a fifth the number of items on which it is paid.

Cthe service began offering evening collection to lower-band customers in the same month in which it raised the lower charge.

Dmost lower-band parcels went two at a time to one address, and two under two kilograms make one under four.

Eparcels weighing more than five kilograms are charged by weight and supply most of the service's revenue.

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