A company's two divisions performed with remarkable consistency over the past three years: in each of those years, the pharmaceuticals division has accounted for roughly 20 percent of dollars sales and 40 percent of profits, and the chemicals division for the balance.
Regarding the past three years, which of the following can properly be inferred from the statement above?
(A)
Total dollars sales for each of the company's divisions have remained
roughly constant.
We should not take the performance of the two divisions of the company to mean the total dollar sales are consistent. The passage specifically states that the consistency is found in terms of sales/profit split over the last three years.
(B) The pharmaceuticals division has faced
stiffer competition in its markets than has the chemicals division.
This is erroneous in general ...lower sales is not necessarily indicative of stiffer competition. That aside, the passage doesn't give us any clues about what competition is like - stiff or not stiff.
(C) The chemical division has realized lower profits per dollars of sales than has the pharmaceuticals division. Correct
1 dollar sales : 2 dollar profit <---- Pharma division
4 dollar sales: 3 dollar profit <----- Chemical division
(D) The
product mix offered by each of the company's divisions has remained unchanged.
Nothing about product mix.
(E)
Highly profitable products accounted for a higher percentage of the chemicals division's sales than of the pharmaceuticals division's.We don't know this.
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