A city newspaper experienced a major drop in subscriptions in the month following its coverage of a controversial new building downtown. The newspaper also received a flurry of complaints via reader letter, e-mail, and tweets. The newspaper, however, maintains that the negative reactions to its coverage of the building had nothing to do with the cancelled subscriptions.Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the newspaper’s stance?

About a third of the questions that appear in the GMAT verbal section are critical reasoning questions.Typical questions that appear in critical reasoning (GMAT CR) include strengthening an argument, weakening an argument, identifying the assumption of an argument, mimic the reasoning, identify the reasoning, conclusion, inference, bold faced statements, and evaluating an argument.

Each of the critical reasoning questions is based on a short argument, a set of statements, or a plan of action.