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by crazy4gmat » Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:59 am
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The world's best coffee beans come from Colombia. The more Colombian beans in a blend of coffee, the better the blend, and no company purchases more Colombian beans than Kreemo Coffee, Inc. So it only stands to reason that if you buy a can of Kreemo's coffee, you're buying the best blended coffee available today.
The reasoning of the argument in the advertisement is flawed because it overlooks the possibility that
(A) the equipment used by Kreemo to blend and package its coffee is no different from that used by most other coffee producers
(B) not all of Kreemo's competitors use Colombian coffee beans in the blends of coffee they sell
(C) Kreemo sells more coffee than does any other company
(D) Kreemo's coffee is the most expensive blended coffee available today
(E) the best unblended coffee is better than the best blended coffee
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by niraj_a » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:14 am
this was kinda tough, but I chose C.

C is the one that possibly says that if Kreemo buys the most number of Colombian beans (mmmmm), and if it sells the most coffee vs. competitors, then its possible that the additional sale volume is what is driving the additional bean buying, thus making it possible that a Kreemo blend could have the same / less amount of Colombian beans, thus, making it not necessarily the best blended coffee possible.
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by chhina.j » Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:51 am
C is the correct answer.

This company buys the maximun columbian beans and sells the maximum coffee. But it does not buy all the columbian beans. So other companies also buy lesser beans and sell lesser coffee. Hence just because this company buys the maximum amont of beans does not mean that their coffee is the best, as in one can any company will have the same amount of blend.
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by raunekk » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:02 am
C for me 2..

p1:The world's best coffee beans come from Colombia
p2:The more Colombian beans in a blend of coffee, the better the blend, and no company purchases more Colombian beans than Kreemo Coffee, Inc.

conlcusion:So it only stands to reason that if you buy a can of Kreemo's coffee, you're buying the best blended coffee available today.

The assumtion made by the stimulus is:

the more coffee beans a company purchases==>>the more coffee beans will be there in a can

But it fails to assume:

..that the number of cans(quantity) sold remains same.

Which means that ,
the quantity of coffee sold by the company is highest and that why they buy more columbian beans

and not because...

the more columbian beans they buy the more they will put in per can..

C says exactly this...


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by blaster » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:12 am
my answer is C

amout of coffee/sold coffee
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by crazy4gmat » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:49 am
The OA is C.. Thanks guys.
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by jnellaz » Tue Dec 02, 2008 12:39 pm
For more on this question. See here:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/gmat-cr-ques ... html#76999
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by ronniecoleman » Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:07 am
IMO C
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by ashley.com » Fri May 13, 2016 2:20 am
option C is favorit in this case
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