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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Thu May 27, 2010 9:52 am
Fedora Convertibles began selling the Freewheeler - its newest convertible sports car - in May of this year. Fedora sent out a press release last month indicating that the Freewheeler's sales for May, June, July, and August totaled over 50,000. As a result, Fedora will in all likelihood easily meet its stated sales goal of 120,000 for Freewheeler's first year of release.

Which of the following would be most useful in order to evaluate this prediction?

A. Fedora is the market leader in this category of automobile.
B. Freewheeler is significantly more expensive than similar models produced by Fedora's competitors.
C. Fedora released a similar model in May of the previous year.
D. Sales of similar models of cars are typically much higher in the summer months than at any other time of the year.
E. Freewheeler sales are important to meeting the sales goals of Fedora as a company.
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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Thu May 27, 2010 10:02 am
Choose D

This is an evaluate the argument question. With evaluate questions, you are seeking any information that could possibly make the conclusion invalid. Choice D explains that if sales are higher in the summer months than they are during any other time of the year, it is not guaranteed, that the company will achieve its sales goal.
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by priyanka_jinadev » Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:37 pm
I choose D.
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by MRehman » Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:40 pm
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by nonisharma » Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:38 pm
I love D...
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:02 pm
oa is D
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by brijesh » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:32 am
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:Fedora Convertibles began selling the Freewheeler - its newest convertible sports car - in May of this year. Fedora sent out a press release last month indicating that the Freewheeler's sales for May, June, July, and August totaled over 50,000. As a result, Fedora will in all likelihood easily meet its stated sales goal of 120,000 for Freewheeler's first year of release.

Which of the following would be most useful in order to evaluate this prediction?

A. Fedora is the market leader in this category of automobile.
B. Freewheeler is significantly more expensive than similar models produced by Fedora's competitors.
C. Fedora released a similar model in May of the previous year.
D. Sales of similar models of cars are typically much higher in the summer months than at any other time of the year.
E. Freewheeler sales are important to meeting the sales goals of Fedora as a company.

The business started in May

As in four month (May, June, July and August) the sale is 50,000

Another 70, 000 is yet to be acheived and the months remain are 8 (Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, March and April)

Which can easily be acheived if an argument can make sure that the trend will be same or better in comming months

Thus D makes sense. (Sales of similar models of cars are typically much higher in the summer months than at any other time of the year)

Another Qs:
Suppose the target has to be met, till December of the year.
Then none of the above suites ...except, the prediction from previous year`s experience (in that case the answer would have been C- Fedora released a similar model in May of the previous year.)

Pls correct, if I am wrong.
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