arora007 wrote:The education offered by junior colleges just after the Second World War had a tremendous practical effect on family-run businesses throughout the country. After learning new methods of marketing, finance, and accounting, the sons and daughters of merchants returned home, often to increase significantly the size of the family's enterprise or in other ways, to maximize the profits.

Which of the following statements is best supported by the information above?

A) The junior colleges principally emphasized methods of increasing the size of small businesses.
B) The business methods taught in the junior colleges were already widespread before the second World War.
C) The business curricula at junior colleges did not include theoretical principles of management.
D) Without the influence of junior colleges, many family-run businesses would have been abandoned as unprofitable.
E) Business methods in many post-war family-run businesses changed significantly as a result of the junior colleges.


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The OA is E, now i cannot get around it... how? D and E look equally close.[/spoiler]

Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:Our stimulus tells us the junior college courses had an effect. To have an effect, they must have been used. Therefore the answer is E.

Try the denial test. If business methods didn't change as a result of courses, then the courses had no effect. if denying an assumption kills the argument then the assumption was necessary.

Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:Our stimulus tells us the junior college courses had an effect. To have an effect, they must have been used. Therefore the answer is E.

Try the denial test. If business methods didn't change as a result of courses, then the courses had no effect. if denying an assumption kills the argument then the assumption was necessary.

Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:The answer still has to follow logically from the stimulus. If students don't change their actions based on the courses, the courses cannot have an effect.