Contrary to financial analysts, who predicted last year that the market for home computers would dwindle, the personal computer industry continued to show strong growth in the first quarter of this year.

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Logically, the contrary statement laid emphases on the prediction, which is not related to the analysts. Thus the disparity is between the outcome and prediction. Consequently, options a, b, c are  Incorrect since they all refer to contrasts between outcomes and analysts; likewise D.

However option E is correct because it showed that analysts ’refereed to group of individual analysts as a group ( in possessive  form ) and analysts refereed to the plural form.

Thus E distinctly showed the differences.

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