krndatta wrote:
AndrewN,
I want you to share your reasoning for my amended option E.
Quote:
PXC's production costs were same last year as they had been in the previous year.
In other words the production costs were same for both the years.
Can we then conclude the amended statement?
Profit margins and prices remain unchanged. So can we say that production costs remained same too?
Am just asking for my understanding purposes.
Be careful,
krndatta: wanting is a form of suffering, and there are more meaningful considerations in life than GMAT™ questions. (I encourage people not to pursue suffering.) I am also not a proponent of tinkering with answer choices to official questions, since they are written to follow a straight-arrow logic or, if they are incorrect, to be flawed.
Those caveats aside, I would still say that no, we would not be able to conclude your amended answer choice (E). Notice how carefully the information at the end of the passage is phrased, regarding
prices and profit margins:
Quote:
about the same number of PXC computers were sold and the prices and profit margins for each computer model that PXC sells remained unchanged
What is different between your amended answer choice and what the passage tells us is that you have dropped the crucial part about
each computer model. Without this information, you seem to driving at
total production costs, and different computer models could have different production costs and thereby have an effect on PXC's
total profits.
Thank you for thinking to ask.
- Andrew
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