X is an online media provider. By offering unlimited and exclusive online content at attractive prices for a loyalty membership, X is almost forcing its customers towards its loyalty membership. If its royalty membership continues to grow at its current rate, within the next eight years more households will subscribe to X's loyalty membership than to cable television. Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the above paragraph? A. Most households that subscribe to X's loyalty membership will cancel cable television subscription B. Non-members prefer to watch television and cable TV C. Cable television operators do not subscribe to X's loyalty members D. X is cancelling accounts of non-members

GATE 2019 · General Aptitude · Passage Reading · medium

Answer: Option A can be inferred: as X's loyalty membership grows to surpass cable TV subscriptions, most X subscribers will cancel cable television subscriptions.

1. Evaluate Option B: The passage says nothing about preferences of non-members regarding cable TV. This is an assumption not supported by the text.
2. Evaluate Option C: The passage does not mention cable television operators subscribing or not subscribing to X. This introduces a new entity not discussed.
3. Evaluate Option D: The passage says X is forcing customers towards loyalty membership by pricing and exclusivity, not that it is cancelling non-member accounts. This misreads the passage.
4. Evaluate Option A: If X's loyalty membership surpasses cable TV subscriptions in 8 years, then households are moving from cable to X. This implies most X subscribers will cancel cable. This is the natural inference from the growth projection.