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Editorial: In order to preserve the health of its local [#permalink]
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Editorial: In order to preserve the health of its local economy, Metropolis should not permit a CostMart warehouse department store to open within city limits. It has been demonstrated that when CostMart opens a warehouse department store within a city, the bankruptcy rate of local retailers increases in that city by twenty percent over the next several years. Which of the following questions would be most useful for evaluating the conclusion of the Editorial? (A) Does the bankruptcy rate of local retailers in a city generally stabilize several years after a CostMart warehouse department store opens? (B) Do most residents of Metropolis currently do almost all of their shopping at stores within the city limits of Metropolis? (C) Have other cities that have permitted CostMart warehouse department stores within city limits experienced any economic benefits as a result? (D) Is the bankruptcy rate for local retailers in Metropolis higher than in the average city that has permitted a CostMart warehouse department store within city limits? (E) Does CostMart plan to hire employees exclusively from within Metropolis for the proposed warehouse department store?
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Re: Editorial: In order to preserve the health [#permalink]
12 Jan 2013, 05:36
jgomey wrote: rajathpanta wrote: Editorial: In order to preserve the health of its local economy, Metropolis should
not permit a CostMart warehouse department store to open within city limits.
It has been demonstrated that when CostMart opens a warehouse department
store within a city, the bankruptcy rate of local retailers increases in that city by
twenty percent over the next several years.
Which of the following questions would be most useful for evaluating the conclusion
of the Editorial?
(A) Does the bankruptcy rate of local retailers in a city generally stabilize several
years after a CostMart warehouse department store opens?
(B) Do most residents of Metropolis currently do almost all of their shopping at
stores within the city limits of Metropolis?
(C) Have other cities that have permitted CostMart warehouse department
stores within city limits experienced any economic benefits as a result?
(D) Is the bankruptcy rate for local retailers in Metropolis higher than in the average
city that has permitted a CostMart warehouse department store within
city limits?
(E) Does CostMart plan to hire employees exclusively from within Metropolis for
the proposed warehouse department store?
OA later.... I am thinking it may be D.. Pls post your explanation It will be helpful for all others in the forum too.
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Re: Editorial: In order to preserve the health [#permalink]
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I believe the answer is C. Here is my explanation: The questions states that when CostMart opens in a city, stores in that city go bankrupt at an increasing rate. Because of this, CostMart should not be allowed to open in Metropolis. To evaluate this claim, one must ask whether or not anything else has happened. For example, if CostMart is causing local retailers to go bankrupt, but providing more jobs and lower prices than those local retailers, that positive may outweigh the negative of the bankruptcy. C perfectly answers the question. If there are economic benefits that result from CostMart opening, that may outweigh any negatives associated with CostMart's opening.
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Re: Editorial: In order to preserve the health [#permalink]
12 Jan 2013, 12:37
rajathpanta wrote: Editorial: In order to preserve the health of its local economy, Metropolis should
not permit a CostMart warehouse department store to open within city limits.
It has been demonstrated that when CostMart opens a warehouse department
store within a city, the bankruptcy rate of local retailers increases in that city by
twenty percent over the next several years.
Which of the following questions would be most useful for evaluating the conclusion
of the Editorial?
(A) Does the bankruptcy rate of local retailers in a city generally stabilize several
years after a CostMart warehouse department store opens?
(B) Do most residents of Metropolis currently do almost all of their shopping at
stores within the city limits of Metropolis?
(C) Have other cities that have permitted CostMart warehouse department
stores within city limits experienced any economic benefits as a result?
(D) Is the bankruptcy rate for local retailers in Metropolis higher than in the average
city that has permitted a CostMart warehouse department store within
city limits?
(E) Does CostMart plan to hire employees exclusively from within Metropolis for
the proposed warehouse department store?
OA later.... The the argument assumes that a one sample is representative of all samples. So if the sample described-retailers in metropolis-is the same as all other retailers, then the new shopping center may have an impact. But if the sample is not the same as all other retailers, then maybe the new shopping center will not have an impact. D differentiates metropolis retailers from other retailers, fitting the assumption I described.
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Re: Editorial: In order to preserve the health [#permalink]
12 Jan 2013, 12:52
commdiver wrote: I believe the answer is C. Here is my explanation:
The questions states that when CostMart opens in a city, stores in that city go bankrupt at an increasing rate. Because of this, CostMart should not be allowed to open in Metropolis. To evaluate this claim, one must ask whether or not anything else has happened. For example, if CostMart is causing local retailers to go bankrupt, but providing more jobs and lower prices than those local retailers, that positive may outweigh the negative of the bankruptcy.
C perfectly answers the question. If there are economic benefits that result from CostMart opening, that may outweigh any negatives associated with CostMart's opening. Hmmm but how would you address D?
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Re: Editorial: In order to preserve the health [#permalink]
12 Jan 2013, 14:25
rajathpanta wrote: Editorial: In order to preserve the health of its local economy, Metropolis should
not permit a CostMart warehouse department store to open within city limits.
It has been demonstrated that when CostMart opens a warehouse department
store within a city, the bankruptcy rate of local retailers increases in that city by
twenty percent over the next several years.
Which of the following questions would be most useful for evaluating the conclusion
of the Editorial?
(A) Does the bankruptcy rate of local retailers in a city generally stabilize several
years after a CostMart warehouse department store opens?
(B) Do most residents of Metropolis currently do almost all of their shopping at
stores within the city limits of Metropolis?
(C) Have other cities that have permitted CostMart warehouse department
stores within city limits experienced any economic benefits as a result?
i think option(
(A) Does the bankruptcy rate of local retailers in a city generally stabilize several
years after a CostMart warehouse department store opens?
(D) Is the bankruptcy rate for local retailers in Metropolis higher than in the average
city that has permitted a CostMart warehouse department store within
city limits?
(E) Does CostMart plan to hire employees exclusively from within Metropolis for
the proposed warehouse department store?
OA later.... i think option (A) (Does the bankruptcy rate of local retailers in a city generally stabilize several years after a CostMart warehouse department store opens?)serves as the best answer..the authors conclusion is in support of costmart's opening as being the major cause of bankruptcy of the retailers within city limits for the next several years;signifying,as put by the editorial,that the economy stabilizes after those years..so option A asks a question that is checking the probability of costmart's responsibility on economic recession of local people in a way that it asks a question whether or not that the economy stabilises after several years after costmart's opening..if it is the economy does not stabilise after those several years then costmart is not responsible for any recession,the converse is true. Posted from my mobile device 
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Re: Editorial: In order to preserve the health [#permalink]
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commdiver wrote: I believe the answer is C. Here is my explanation:
The questions states that when CostMart opens in a city, stores in that city go bankrupt at an increasing rate. Because of this, CostMart should not be allowed to open in Metropolis. To evaluate this claim, one must ask whether or not anything else has happened. For example, if CostMart is causing local retailers to go bankrupt, but providing more jobs and lower prices than those local retailers, that positive may outweigh the negative of the bankruptcy.
C perfectly answers the question. If there are economic benefits that result from CostMart opening, that may outweigh any negatives associated with CostMart's opening. Commdiver is right. C is the answer because make strong and weak at the same time the question posed basically the argument says if the costmart opening is good or bad. we know that only and if only we can compare a previous situation, similar, in another area. is logic guys (A) Does the bankruptcy rate of local retailers in a city generally stabilize severalyears after a CostMart warehouse department store opens? doesn't help(B) Do most residents of Metropolis currently do almost all of their shopping at stores within the city limits of Metropolis? is not the point(C) Have other cities that have permitted CostMart warehouse department stores within city limits experienced any economic benefits as a result? if true is better avoiding to permit Costmart to open because it hurts our economy. If is not true, come in Cost mart maybe we can have advantages from this: new hiring and so on(D) Is the bankruptcy rate for local retailers in Metropolis higher than in the average city that has permitted a CostMart warehouse department store within city limits? well is not useful. we are talking about bankruptcy itself not the average between to city
(E) Does CostMart plan to hire employees exclusively from within Metropolis forthe proposed warehouse department store? exclusively is not the point to make stronger or weaker the argument conclusionTry to figure out ALWAYS what's going on for the argument at stake. always. this is really an upper level question. do not dive into the options too earlier, try to make the argument simple and do some assumption or to understand the whole picture Hope this helps
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Re: Editorial: In order to preserve the health [#permalink]
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C is the only answer which approaches the problem correctly. But in my opinion the usage of benefits is not correct. It should rather be avoid the negative consequences of a new mart
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