Among the more effective kinds of publicity that publishers can get for a new book is to have excerpts of it published in a high-circulation magazine soon before the book is published. The benefits of such excerption include not only a sure increase in sales but also a fee paid by the magazine to the book’s publisher.

Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above?

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The number of people for whom seeing an excerpt of a book in a magazine provides an adequate substitute for reading the whole book is smaller than the number for whom the excerpt stimulates a desire to read the book.

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Because the financial advantage of excerpting a new book in a magazine usually accrues to the book’s publisher, magazine editors are unwilling to publish excerpts from new books.

In calculating the total number of copies that a book has sold, publishers include sales of copies of magazines that featured an excerpt of the book.

The effectiveness of having excerpts of a book published in a magazine, measured in terms of increased sales of a book, is proportional to the circulation of the magazine in which the excerpts are published.

Books that are suitable for excerpting in high-circulation magazines sell more copies than books that are not suitable for excerpting.

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What this question tests

What it tests

Whether you can identify the argument's main conclusion as opposed to a supporting premise.

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Selecting a restatement of a premise or a side point instead of the central conclusion.