As americans' unprecedented prosperity filters down to the next generation, attracting teens' business has become a holy grail for marketers.
"it's a very influential market," says selina gruber, president of children's market research inc. in new york. "marketers never really paid that much attention to kids,
but now they do because it's becoming their bread and butter."
what is the central idea of this passage?
there is a growing interest in marketing to teens
o in the past, marketers did not pay attention to kids
o american prosperity affects teen-agers.
o market research firms track the teen market.

Ed participated in a psychology experiment in which he turned pegs on a board for one hour. although the task was very boring, the experimenter said, "i will pay you $1 if you tell the next participant that this experiment is the most exciting experiment that you have ever been in." julie also participated in the same experiment; however, the experimenter offered to pay her $50 to lie to the next participant. according to cognitive dissonance theory, ed will later report that experiment was and julie will report that it was a. boring; exciting b. exciting; boring c. exciting; exciting d. boring; boring