Highest Priority

[okigbo]

Ravi: The highest priority should be given to the needs of the sales department because without successful sales the company as a whole would fail

Ed: There are several departments other than sales that must also function successfully for the company to succeed. It is impossible to give the highest priority to all of them

Ed criticizes Ravi's argument by pointing out:

a. That the sales department taken by itself is not critical to the company's success as a whole
b. The ambiguity of the term "highest priority"
c. That the departments other than sales are more vital to the company's success
d. An absurd consequence of its apparent assumption that a departments' necessity earns it the highest priority
e. That Ravi makes a generalization from an atypical case

[pandeyvineet24]

A for me.

[arorag]

its A??

[okigbo]

A is not the answer. Argument is that sales department is critical but so are other departments...

Any other thoughts?

[rohan_vus]

option D pretty much summarizes the way ED criticizes Ravi . So IMO D.

[gmatmachoman]

option D pretty much summarizes the way ED criticizes Ravi . So IMO D.

Vote for D from myside!

[DarkKnight]

I will go with B.

[sumank8216]

D for sure.

[gmatmachoman]

Someone forgot to post the OA?/

[lunarpower]

Ravi: The highest priority should be given to the needs of the sales department because without successful sales the company as a whole would fail

Ed: There are several departments other than sales that must also function successfully for the company to succeed. It is impossible to give the highest priority to all of them

Ed criticizes Ravi's argument by pointing out:

a. That the sales department taken by itself is not critical to the company's success as a whole
b. The ambiguity of the term "highest priority"
c. That the departments other than sales are more vital to the company's success
d. An absurd consequence of its apparent assumption that a departments' necessity earns it the highest priority
e. That Ravi makes a generalization from an atypical case

this is (d).

in summary:

ed takes the sales dept's argument and applies it to OTHER depts, and shows that, if you apply the same reasoning to other depts, then, well, all of them deserve "highest priority" as well.
that's not workable at all (= "absurd").

(a) is wrong.
ed just says that other depts are also important. this is nowhere close to saying that sales is NOT important. (analogy: if you say you love your son, does that imply that you don't love your daughter?)

(b) is wrong. in fact, it's opposite of the argument: ed's argument actually depends on the fact that "highest priority" is UNambiguous. (he says "it is impossible to give the highest priority to all of them"; this depends on a clear definition of "highest".)

[gmatmachoman]

tHANKS ON!!

D MAKES SENSE

[james33]

I'm pretty confident that D is correct answer.