Company X spokesperson: Although several of our key managerial employees have left our company since we merged with our leading competitor two months ago, we have no reason to believe that a significant number of our other employees will follow suit. Virtually all of Company X's current employees are the same people who we employed prior to the merger, and our employee-relations department is making every effort to ensure that these employees are content here.
Which of the following, if true, would tend to support most effectively the spokesperson's prediction in the argument above?
a. The employees who left Company X since the merger did so because they received more attractive employment offers from other firms.
b. Worsening economic conditions may force Company X to reduce the size of its workforce in the near future.
c. Company X has just hired a highly respected consultant who specializes in employee relations.
d. None of the employees who worked for the company that has merged with Company X have left voluntarily.
e. Most companies lose some workers to other firms as a result of a merger, but the number of workers lost is usually insignificant.
Last year, two drownings occurred at Lake Serene, so this year the lake's owner added one more lifeguard to the lakefront staff. No drownings have occurred at the lake this year. However, the new lifeguard has been home with the flu for nearly half the summer, so it appears that the new lifeguard was not needed after all.
Which of the following, if true, would be most damaging to the argument above?
a. This year, the lake's owner posted a warning about swimming without a lifeguard present.
b. Drowning is not the lake owner's only safety concern.
c. The lake has been equally crowded with swimmers this year as last year.
d. Lake activities are safer in the presence of lifeguards.
e. The new lifeguard has never saved a person from drowning.
What do u think the answers are guyz
Which of the following, if true, would tend to support most effectively the spokesperson's prediction in the argument above?
a. The employees who left Company X since the merger did so because they received more attractive employment offers from other firms.
b. Worsening economic conditions may force Company X to reduce the size of its workforce in the near future.
c. Company X has just hired a highly respected consultant who specializes in employee relations.
d. None of the employees who worked for the company that has merged with Company X have left voluntarily.
e. Most companies lose some workers to other firms as a result of a merger, but the number of workers lost is usually insignificant.
Last year, two drownings occurred at Lake Serene, so this year the lake's owner added one more lifeguard to the lakefront staff. No drownings have occurred at the lake this year. However, the new lifeguard has been home with the flu for nearly half the summer, so it appears that the new lifeguard was not needed after all.
Which of the following, if true, would be most damaging to the argument above?
a. This year, the lake's owner posted a warning about swimming without a lifeguard present.
b. Drowning is not the lake owner's only safety concern.
c. The lake has been equally crowded with swimmers this year as last year.
d. Lake activities are safer in the presence of lifeguards.
e. The new lifeguard has never saved a person from drowning.
What do u think the answers are guyz
