Bunuel wrote:
Spending on clothes in this country increased by 35% from 1970 to 1990. Over the same period, however, revenue from clothing sales actually made instores, whether retail or wholesale, only increased by 20% and most of that increase took place in national chain departmental stores.
Based on the above statements, which of the following is the most reasonable conclusion about the period from 1970 to 1990
A. There was an increase in spending on clothes that were purchased thru alternate channels, such as thru the mail or over the phone.
B. Spending on clothes decreased in those stores that were not national chain department stores
C. The spending increase was not caused by people buying more clothes, but by an increase in clothing prices, both in retail stores and in wholesale outlets.
D. Most of the increase in spending on clothing was the result of an increase in sales of high price items to a relatively small number of people.
E. Most of the clothing sales that did not take place in stores were made thru the mail order divisions of national department stores.
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To draw the conclusion for the statements presented above, Most of the people must have picked up choices A and E, which answer the following questions:-1) Why there was a difference between 35% raise in overall sales and 20% raise in the sales made through retail stores?
Answer- Choice A, which can be logically concluded.
2) Why sales in National chain stores increased?
Answer choice E, Which concludes that raise in sales in National departmental store chain is because of some other divisions. Still National stores were unable to boost their output to maximum 35%.
these thoughts made me incline toward answer choice A.