BREAKING: Target Test Prep releases Brand New 2026 On Demand GMAT prep course

Redeem

Target Test Prep · GMAT

Choose how you want to prepare

Learn live with an expert or move at your own pace. Every option includes the complete TTP study system.

★★★★★5.0559 reviews
Vote for Target Test Prep, Newsweek Readers’ Choice Awards 2026
NEWSWEEK READERS’ CHOICE 2026

BIG NEWS! Target Test Prep has been nominated, and they’d love your vote!

TTP has worked incredibly hard to build the best test prep experience possible, and winning Newsweek’s 2026 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Test Prep would mean a lot to them. If TTP has helped you, they’d be incredibly grateful for your vote. You can vote once each day through September 9.

Vote for TTP
GMATLiveTeach 7 seats left
Chris Peckover
NEXT LIVE COHORT

Oct 13 to Jan 7, 2027

with Chris Peckover

Schedule
Tue, Thu · 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET
Included
40 live hours + 6 months of GMAT OnDemand
  • Live instruction and real-time questions
  • Class recordings and assigned practice
View class & enroll
Limited cohort · enrollment openTarget Test Prep
EALiveTeach 5 seats left
Logan Thompson
EXECUTIVE ASSESSMENT

Sep 6 to Dec 6, 2026

with Logan Thompson

Schedule
Sun · 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM ET
Included
40 hours of live online classes plus six months of access to the complete TTP EA OnDemand course.
  • 165+ EA Score Guarantee
  • 4,100+ Quant, Verbal, and Integrated Reasoning practice questions
  • 400+ hours of in-depth video lessons
  • 3,000+ step-by-step video solutions
View EA class & enroll
Limited cohort · enrollment openTarget Test Prep
GMATOnDemand Start anytime
SELF-PACED MASTERCLASS

Target Test Prep GMAT OnDemand

Complete access from day one. Study on your schedule.

715+ score guarantee
$0to start then $127/mo
  • Personalized study plan and analytics
  • Thousands of lessons and practice questions

Compare the format, schedule, and included access before enrolling. Prices and seat counts shown reflect the supplied offer details.

Manufacturer of mechanical pencils

Expert replies
by Needgmat » Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:36 am
Manufacturer of mechanical pencils make most of their profit on pencil leads rather than on the pencils themselves. The write company, which can not sell its leads as cheaply as other manufacturers can, plans to alter the design of its mechanical pencil so that it will accept only a newly designed write company lead, which will be sold at the same price as the write company's current lead.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the write's company's projection that its plan will lead to an increase in its sales of pencil leads?

A) First time buyers of mechanical pencils tend to buy the least expensive mechanical pencils available.

B) Annual sales of mechanical pencils are expected to triple over the next five years.

C) A write company executive is studying ways to reduce the cost of manufacturing pencil leads.

D) A rival manufacturer recently announced similar plans to introduce a mechanical pencil that would accept only the leads produced by that manufacturer.

E) In extensive test marketing, mechanical-pencil users found the new write company pencil markedly superior to other mechanical pencils they had used.


OAE

Please explain
Join the discussion
Source: — Critical Reasoning |

by elias.latour.apex » Wed May 03, 2017 4:15 am
The question asks us to support the projection that the "plan will lead to an increase in its sales of pencil leads."

What's the situation? Most of the money is made from selling leads to fill mechanical pencils rather than from sales of the mechanical pencil itself. The write company proposes to modify its pencil so that the pencil will only take leads produced by the write company.

What's the assumption? The write company seems to assume that people want to use its mechanical pencil but are using leads from competitors. Which of the following choices supports this assumption?

(A) does not support because there is no reason to believe that write's pencil is the cheapest.
(B) does not support because we are concerned with sales of leads not with sales of pencils.
(C) does not support. Just because an executive is studying ways to reduce the costs does not mean that he will succeed.
(D) does not support. Just because a competitor hopes to do the same thing does not mean that either plan will succeed.
(E) supports. If a write company pencil is superior, then people will presumably want to use it. To do so, they will need to buy leads from write company.
Elias Latour
Verbal Specialist @ ApexGMAT
blog.apexgmat.com
+1 (646) 736-7622
Join the discussion