Gmatprep CR - Mammoth industries

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Gmatprep CR - Mammoth industries

by jayhawk2001 » Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:45 pm
OA after a few reply. Answers with explanation please.

Sales of telephones have incresad dramatically over the year. In order to take advantage of this increase, Mammoth Industries plans to expand production of its own model of telephone, while continuing its already very extensive advertising of this product.

Which of the following , if true, provides most support for the view that Mammoth Industries cannot increase its sales of telephones by adopting the plan outlined above?

A) Although it sells all of the telephones that it produces, Mammoth Industries' share of all telephone sales has declined over the last year

B) Mammoth Industries' average inventory of telephones awaiting shipment to retailers has declined slightly over the last year

C)Advertising has made the brand name of Mammoth Industries' telephones widely known, but few consumers know that Mammoth Industries owns this brand

D)Mammoth Industries' telephone is one of three brands of telephone that have together accounted for the bulk of the last year's increase in sales

E) Despite a slight decline in the retail price, sales of Mammoth Industries' telephones have fallen in the last year
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by rocky » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:44 pm
Here E undermines that the sales of newly envisioned telephone sets by the M Industries will increase..
Although A is also very near to answer but we cannot conclude from the share since The increase in the sales last year might had been so huge that even after the loss of share by M industries its sales had increased.
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by jayhawk2001 » Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:31 am
Right on. OA is E

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by peter.p.81 » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:08 am
I also choose A, the most logical one.