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Tricky CR assumption

by gocoder » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:21 am
A couple of necessary assumption questions stumped me. Not able to find any markers after drilling down here. any help is appreciated.

1. Country X imposes heavy tariffs on imported manufactured goods. Company Y has determined that it could increase its profits in the long term by opening a factory in Country X to manufacture the goods that it currently produces in its home country for sale in Country X.

For Company Y's determination to be true, which of the following assumptions must also be true?

(A) Company Y will be able to obtain all the necessary permits to open a factory in Country X.

(C) A sustainable market for Company Y's goods currently exists in Country X.

After eliminating the other choices, I'm left with A and C. Both options when negated seem to support the conclusion.
negated A. Company Y will not get all permits to open factory in X-> Factory can't be opened ??
negated B. not a good market for Y's products exists in B. Seems ok too.
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by crackverbal » Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:38 pm
this is why you have to read CR questions carefully.
Also, it is beneficial to write down a one line summary of what the argument is trying to say.

Let us see what the argument actually states -

Opening a factory in Country X --> increase profits in the long term.

A - let us see what A says - "will be able to obtain all necessary permits to open a factory in country X". This does not affect my argument because of the conditional nature of the argument. If it opens a factory in X then its profits will increase.

Even if you negate this option - Company Y will not be able to obtain necessary permits -, it does not weaken the argument that opening a factory would lead to increased profits. (whether the company opens the factory or not, the fact that such an action would increase profits still remains the same).
C - correct answer. If a sustainable market does not exist, then it means the company's country X operation would go into loss. negating C weakens the argument.
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by gocoder » Mon Oct 10, 2016 11:20 pm
crackverbal wrote:this is why you have to read CR questions carefully.
Also, it is beneficial to write down a one line summary of what the argument is trying to say.

Let us see what the argument actually states -

Opening a factory in Country X --> increase profits in the long term.

A - let us see what A says - "will be able to obtain all necessary permits to open a factory in country X". This does not affect my argument because of the conditional nature of the argument. If it opens a factory in X then its profits will increase.

Even if you negate this option - Company Y will not be able to obtain necessary permits -, it does not weaken the argument that opening a factory would lead to increased profits. (whether the company opens the factory or not, the fact that such an action would increase profits still remains the same).
C - correct answer. If a sustainable market does not exist, then it means the company's country X operation would go into loss. negating C weakens the argument.
Thanks for this, crack verbal!!

Conclusion:"Opening a factory in Country X --> increase profits in the long term."

Correct me if wrong.
"if factory opens ->profits"
It is a conditional statement.(If A->B.)

Do we need to consider this as a fact/true ?


So choices, which on negation sound, like CeO is not young, so can't open factory or norms in the proposed country doesn't permit new comers easily etc don't having bearing on the conclusion ?

Second, for causals relations too(in the format 'because A->B'), any assumption that says that A will take place(on negation it gives A can't take place) can't be taken as an assumption ?
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