<p>A few suppliers agreed to the discounted price requested by the company, but <strong>others</strong> were reluctant to reduce their products' prices.</p><div><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">The correct answer is </span><strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">(B) others</strong><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">.
In this sentence, we need a pronoun to refer to the suppliers who were reluctant to reduce their products' prices. Since "a few suppliers" already refers to a group of suppliers, we need a pronoun that can refer to the remaining suppliers in that group.
The pronoun "others" is the appropriate choice here. It is used to refer to additional people or things in a group. In this case, it refers to the suppliers who did not agree to the discounted price. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.008px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">(A) "other" is incorrect because it is used to refer to a singular noun, not a group of suppliers. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">(C) "one" is incorrect because it refers to a singular supplier, not multiple suppliers. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">(D) "both" is incorrect because it implies that all the suppliers were reluctant to reduce their prices, which is not the case according to the sentence.</span><br></div>