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ketkoag: Legendary Member; Posts: 876; Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:14 am; Thanked: 13 times

by ketkoag » Wed May 06, 2009 5:52 am

Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district.
The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activist’s reasoning?
A. Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns?
B. Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Morganville?
C. In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period?
D. What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn from Morganville?
E. Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their first five years of operation?

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Re: evaluate

by kanha81 » Wed May 06, 2009 6:29 am

ketkoag wrote:Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district.
The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activist’s reasoning?
A. Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns?
B. Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Morganville?
C. In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period?
D. What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn from Morganville?
E. Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their first five years of operation?

I have 2 contenders [spoiler][D][/spoiler] and [spoiler][E][/spoiler], but since I can choose 1, I will go for [spoiler][D][/spoiler]

because the proportion is a given statistics in the present stimuli, hence to evaluate the critic's argument, it will be a handy benchmark to part with or against the activist.

what is OA?

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by m&m » Wed May 06, 2009 7:45 am

I think it should be C

We need to establish whether there are any external factors causing the stores to go bankrupt. If generally stores end-up bankrupt within 5 years anyways then it's not necessarily SaveAll that is causing their bankruptcy.

In D the employees have little to nothing to do with the passage. It would be a stretch to assume that they would go bankrupt because the employees would leave to work at SaveAll.

In E Saveall loosing money does not necessarily tell us that the other stores are going bankrupts.

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Re: evaluate

by kanha81 » Wed May 06, 2009 9:40 am

kanha81 wrote:
ketkoag wrote:Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district.
The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activist’s reasoning?
A. Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns?
B. Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Morganville?
C. In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period?
D. What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn from Morganville?
E. Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their first five years of operation?
I have 2 contenders [spoiler][D][/spoiler] and [spoiler][E][/spoiler], but since I can choose 1, I will go for [spoiler][D][/spoiler]

because the proportion is a given statistics in the present stimuli, hence to evaluate the critic's argument, it will be a handy benchmark to part with or against the activist.

what is OA?

I meant [spoiler][C][/spoiler] or [spoiler][E][/spoiler] and I would go with [spoiler][C][/spoiler]. Got blinded with two consecutive answer choices that talk about proportion.

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by rs2010 » Wed May 06, 2009 11:51 am

I will also go with C rest all choices do not give that strong feeling.

For evaluating the argument we need to compare what % suffer bankrupty without factor X.

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by mehravikas » Wed May 06, 2009 6:53 pm

I am with @ hemantsood

IMO - C

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by ketkoag » Thu May 07, 2009 11:04 am

OA : C

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by samanthaJ79 » Sun May 15, 2016 6:02 am

I am leaning more towards E

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