medium · GRE Verbal
A university library reported that after it extended its weekday hours to midnight, the total number of book checkouts per week did not increase. The library's director had predicted that longer hours would raise checkouts by giving students more time to browse and borrow. Puzzlingly, surveys show that student use of the library during the newly added evening hours has been heavy.
Which of the following, if true, does the most to resolve the apparent paradox?
- Students who visit the library during the added evening hours come primarily to use quiet study space and rarely check out books.
- The library decided to add the extended weekday evening hours in direct response to a petition that had been signed by several hundred students.
- Over the same period, weekly book checkouts at a nearby public library across town declined slightly rather than rising.
- The library's overall collection of physical books is somewhat smaller than the collections held by other comparable universities in the region.
- Some students who had formerly checked books out now simply read those books within the library building instead of borrowing them to take home.
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