Passage Summary: A magazine was on track to be #1 if it kept growing fast, but since it's now going to grow more slowly, the author says it's impossible for it to reach the top spot.

Conclusion: The magazine will fail to become the world's largest-selling martial arts magazine in ten years.

Reasoning: Becoming the largest requires the circulation to continue rising at its current rate, but because proposed changes were blocked, the circulation will grow more slowly than it has in the past.

Analysis: The author is assuming that maintaining the *current* high growth rate is the only possible way to become the market leader. This ignores the possibility that even with slower growth, the magazine could still eventually overtake its competitors—perhaps because the competitors are also growing slowly or even shrinking. The flaw lies in treating a specific rate of growth as a necessary condition for success when it might only have been a sufficient one. Look for an answer that notes the author overlooks the possibility of reaching the goal at a slower pace.