Ambiance Hotels has a customer loyalty program that rewards customers with a paper coupon for a free night at an Ambiance Hotel after spending four nights in one. The marketing department of the hotel chain notices that people have begun selling these coupons on the Internet for less than the cost of a night at an Ambiance Hotel. Therefore, the marketing department has advised that the hotel chain begin issuing web-based vouchers that are nontransferable.What is the assumption underlying the marketing department’s logic in its plan?

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.