Icarus Airline Manufacturing Corporation has continuously made greater profits by supplying airlines with quality airplanes which are equipped with increased seating capacity. In an effort to continue this financial trend, the company is set to launch a double-decker jumbo jet.
The plan of the company as described above assumes all of the following EXCEPT:
A. The demand for air travel will increase in the future.
B. Increased production expenses for the new jumbo jet will be offset by increased revenues.
C. Passengers have no preference between the new double-decker jumbo jet and the previous models in the market.
D. The new jumbo jet will be technologically unreliable once in operation, resulting in unexpected costs or unrealized revenues.
E. The new jumbo jet will not require substantial new training of the pilots or building new parking space at the airports.
OA D
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Premise: Icarus Airline Manufacturing Corporations has continuously made greater profits by supplying airlines with quality airplanes that are equipped with increased seating capacity.
Conclusion: Icarus Airline Manufacturing Corporations is set to launch a double-decker jumbo jet.
Option A - Incorrect:
This is an example of what plan assumes as a result of the continuous greater profits the company made by supplying quality airplanes that are equipped with increased seating capacity.
Option B - Incorrect:
This argument is not concerned with production expenses. Hence, it doesn't align with the passage.
Option C - Incorrect:
We can't know about the preference of passengers because no information was given about them in the passage.
Option D - Correct:
This is true as it is against the assumption of the plan in this passage because the company supplies quality airplanes, and the plan is as a result of boosting the company's financial trend of making profits.
Option E - Incorrect:
This is also what the plan assumes because the company is concerned with supplying airlines with quality airplanes, and not new training of the pilots.
Conclusion: Icarus Airline Manufacturing Corporations is set to launch a double-decker jumbo jet.
Option A - Incorrect:
This is an example of what plan assumes as a result of the continuous greater profits the company made by supplying quality airplanes that are equipped with increased seating capacity.
Option B - Incorrect:
This argument is not concerned with production expenses. Hence, it doesn't align with the passage.
Option C - Incorrect:
We can't know about the preference of passengers because no information was given about them in the passage.
Option D - Correct:
This is true as it is against the assumption of the plan in this passage because the company supplies quality airplanes, and the plan is as a result of boosting the company's financial trend of making profits.
Option E - Incorrect:
This is also what the plan assumes because the company is concerned with supplying airlines with quality airplanes, and not new training of the pilots.
