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by sanjoy18 » Mon Dec 07, 2015 12:10 pm
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.

OA: [[spoiler]b]E [/b][/spoiler]

I understand others answers are wrong..but can any one explain why Eis correct.
Major problem I see here is Business methods..
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by MartyMurray » Mon Dec 07, 2015 6:38 pm
Look at the development of the prompt.

"education offered by junior colleges just after the Second World War had a tremendous practical effect on family-run businesses"

OK, so the education had an effect on the businesses. Something about the businesses changed because of that education.

"After learning new methods ... the sons and daughters of merchants returned home, often to increase significantly the size of the family's enterprise"

So the sons and daughters learned "new methods" and then returned home to change the businesses. The businesses were changed because of "new methods". What kinds of methods? Methods of "marketing, finance and accounting", which are all business methods.

So the way junior college education affected businesses was by teaching sons and daughters new business methods which they went to on to apply at the family-run businesses, significantly increasing the size of the businesses.

So the prompt best supports answer choice E.
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