Study the following information and five statements given below it carefully and answer the questions which follow : Advertisements play an important role in the sell of a product. Advertisements help consumer to decide which product he/she should buy. In the absence of
advertisements consumer has very little choices to buy the products of his/her needs.
(A) Advertisements highlight only the bright side of the product. They do not reveal the weak features of the product.
(B) Most of the people wish that companies should stop issuing advertisements as these attract people and they start using the glamorous articles.
(C) The increased frequency of advertisements attracts more different classes of people to buy the products.
(D) The products which are heavily advertised attract a large number of people and they start buying the products. For example, a large number of people buy potato chips.
(E) Consumers lose faith in the advertisement when they do not find the products upto mark.
Which of the statements numbered (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) mentioned above
would weaken/contradict the facts presented in the paragraph ?
The paragraph says that Advertisements facilitate decision making and help increase the sales of a product.
(A) shows the weakness of advertisements in general, but doesn't say anything about the decision making and the sales, hence (A) can't be the answer.
(B) presents a view, that most people don't want advertisements. This doesn't contradicts all the facts presented, as even though people might not like that, but advertisements can still help the sales of a product. Hence (B) can't be the answer.
(C) presents the pros of advertisements and supports the arguments.
(D) supports the arguments presented in the paragraph.
(E) says consumers lose faith in advertisements if they find the products are not up to the mark. This means that sooner or later, the sales of the products advertised would go down and also since people have lost faith in advertisements, advertisements won't help them in making decisions. This contradicts with the paragraph.
Hence (E).
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