The design department of a cardboard factory has a computer-operated machine that makes cuts and prepares fold lines from a standard flat piece of cardboard so that a full-size prototype can be folded and built into three dimensions. Designers constantly use the machine, which is overloaded with pending cut-outs to create, to test their sketches and, as a rule, need to build at least 5 prototypes before having a design authorized for production. To increase the department's efficiency, the factory manager is planning to introduce a rule demanding that the designers build the first three prototypes manually with pens, rulers, and cutter knives.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the reason to expect that the factory manager's plan will succeed?
A) The computer-operated prototype builder needs to be manually fed a new piece of cardboard for every prototype that it prepares although with this help it can make 40 times more prototypes than a designer can in the same amount of time.
B) The constant workload placed on the machine leads to an increase in the number of malfunctions it experiences, and repairing it is very expensive.
C) Because the factory only purchased the computer-operated machine one year ago, all the designers know how to convert two-dimensional sketches into accurate three-dimensional prototypes manually.
D) Since the last prototype is the most critical in the process, the authorization of the product depending upon it, building it manually would not be as accurate as allowing the machine to prepare the cut-out.
E) Instead of checking thoroughly for mistakes, the designers are often hasty in sending their sketches to be created by the machine since doing so requires none of the effort entailed in building a prototype by hand.
OA E
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The main concern of this argument talked about a computer operated machine used to create, test and build five prototypes of a cardboard design in order for it to be authorized for production.
But to increase efficiency, the manager plans on making new rules to make designers create the first three prototypes using manual instruments.
Option A :- INCORRECT
If true, the computer operated prototype builder won't be over-loaded with pending cut-out to create because it will be fed with a new piece of cardboard manually and also make the work more efficient, but this will ruin the plan of the company manager and therefore won't strengthen the reason for his plan to succeed.
Option B :- INCORRECT
If true that the work overload actually increases the number of malfunctions and the repair is expensive, it backs up the plan of the factory Manager but isn't strong enough to make the plan succeed because the machine can be fixed and put to work again.
Option C :- INCORRECT
This option doesn't help to strengthen the reason for the factory Manager's plan because, If all the designers know how to convert two dimensional stretches into accurate three dimensional prototypes manually, there will be increase in efficiency as well as no need for Manager's plan.
Option D :- INCORRECT
If true that the last prototype is the most crucial in the process and to authorize the prototype depends on it, building it manually cannot make the prototype accurate which won't make it authorized and would definitely lead to inefficiency. This plan totally negates the Manager's plan and doesn't encourage manual making of prototypes.
Option E :- CORRECT
This option depicts that the designers do not thoroughly check for errors and mistakes and are hasty to send their sketches to their machine which causes it to be overloaded and thereby reduces efficiency. This reason strongly backs up the Manager's plan and would succeed based on the need that the designer should be more thorough and efficient in the creation of prototypes as well as to reduce the workload on the computer operated machines.
But to increase efficiency, the manager plans on making new rules to make designers create the first three prototypes using manual instruments.
Option A :- INCORRECT
If true, the computer operated prototype builder won't be over-loaded with pending cut-out to create because it will be fed with a new piece of cardboard manually and also make the work more efficient, but this will ruin the plan of the company manager and therefore won't strengthen the reason for his plan to succeed.
Option B :- INCORRECT
If true that the work overload actually increases the number of malfunctions and the repair is expensive, it backs up the plan of the factory Manager but isn't strong enough to make the plan succeed because the machine can be fixed and put to work again.
Option C :- INCORRECT
This option doesn't help to strengthen the reason for the factory Manager's plan because, If all the designers know how to convert two dimensional stretches into accurate three dimensional prototypes manually, there will be increase in efficiency as well as no need for Manager's plan.
Option D :- INCORRECT
If true that the last prototype is the most crucial in the process and to authorize the prototype depends on it, building it manually cannot make the prototype accurate which won't make it authorized and would definitely lead to inefficiency. This plan totally negates the Manager's plan and doesn't encourage manual making of prototypes.
Option E :- CORRECT
This option depicts that the designers do not thoroughly check for errors and mistakes and are hasty to send their sketches to their machine which causes it to be overloaded and thereby reduces efficiency. This reason strongly backs up the Manager's plan and would succeed based on the need that the designer should be more thorough and efficient in the creation of prototypes as well as to reduce the workload on the computer operated machines.
