Question

Kitchen magazine plans to license the use of its name by a line of cookware. For a magazine, licensing the use of its name for products involves some danger, since if the products disappoint consumers, the magazine's reputation suffers, with consequent reduction in circulation and advertising. However, experts have evaluated the cookware and found it superior to all other cookware advertised in Kitchen. Therefore, Kitchen can collect its licensing fees without endangering its other revenues.

The argument above assumes which of the following?

(A) No other line of cookware is superior to that which will carry the Kitchen name.
(B) Kitchen will not license the use of its name for any products other than the line of cookware.
(C) Makers of cookware will not find Kitchen a less attractive advertising vehicle because the magazine's name is associated with a competing product.
(D) Consumers who are not regular readers of Kitchen magazine will be attracted to the cookware by the Kitchen name.
(E) Kitchen is one of the most prestigious cooking-related magazines.

Answer 1

C). Makers of cookware will not find Kitchen a less attractive advertising vehicle because the magazine's name is associated with a competing product.

Step-by-step explanation:

Assumptions are described as the direction/premise towards a particular conclusion made by the speaker or author as these reflect the uninvestigated belief or a proposition without evidence that may or may not be true.

In the given argument, option C displays the assumption that the Kitchen magazine must have assumed without examining its validity and reached the conclusion that 'kitchen can collect its licensing fees....without endangering..other revenues'. Thus, option C is the correct answer.