The percentage of family income spent on entertainment has remained almost the same over the past tw...........

Logical Reasoning(Insurance) Statement - Arguments

The percentage of family income spent on entertainment has remained almost the same over the past twenty years – about twelve per cent. When new forms of entertainment become popular, they do not expand this percentage; instead, they take consumer spending away from other forms of entertainment. Therefore, film producers have observed the video boom with concern, knowing that every dollar spent on rental of videos means a dollar less spent on movie theatre admissions.

Which of the following, if true, most forcefully undermines the argument of the passage above?

The cost of renting a video is generally substantially less than the price of a movie theatre admission.

Most film producers receive a portion of the income from the sale of video rights to their movies

Fears of some film producers that videos would completely supersede movies have not come to pass.

Since the start of the video boom, money spent on forms of entertainment other than videos and movies has dropped.

Some movies that were unprofitable when shown in theatres have become successful when released in video form.

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Explanation:

The author argues for the following connection: videos take money away from movies. What choices (d) asserts, in effect, is that the money spent on videos came from some other source. so, (d) statement undermines the given passage.