Critical Reasoning

When demand for a factory's products is high, more money is spent at the factory for safety precautions and machinery maintenance than when demand is low. Thus the average number of on-the-job accidents per employee each month should be lower during periods when demand is high than when demand is low and less money is available for safety precautions and machinery maintenance.

Which of the following, if true about a factory when demand for its products is high, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion
drawn above?

A. Its employees ask for higher wages than they do at other times.
B. Its management hires new workers but lacks the time to train them properly.
C. Its employees are less likely to lose their jobs than they are at other times.
D. Its management sponsors a monthly safety award for each division in the factory.
E. Its old machinery is replaced with modern, automated models.

rakeshd347 wrote:When demand for a factory's products is high, more money is spent at the factory for safety precautions and machinery maintenance than when demand is low. Thus the average number of on-the-job accidents per employee each month should be lower during periods when demand is high than when demand is low and less money is available for safety precautions and machinery maintenance.

Which of the following, if true about a factory when demand for its products is high, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion
drawn above?

A. Its employees ask for higher wages than they do at other times.
B. Its management hires new workers but lacks the time to train them properly.
C. Its employees are less likely to lose their jobs than they are at other times.
D. Its management sponsors a monthly safety award for each division in the factory.
E. Its old machinery is replaced with modern, automated models.

A- we are not talking about wages here
B-Yes. During high demand the management hires new workers who are in experienced, and the management does not have time to train them, then there is every possibility that the "new workers" will be injured, and thus increase the injury rate or number
C-Ok agreed, but it does not have any correlation to injuries
D-So what?Does not make sense. Out of scope
E-Then the number of injuries have to come down since such "machines" are more safe than the old ones.

One more for [spoiler]{B} [/spoiler]- Less training->More changes of Accident