A regional toothpaste company has decided to expand its

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A regional toothpaste company has decided to expand its marketing region by ten cities. Rather than simply expand to the ten most populous cities in the region, the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste.

The toothpaste company's plan assumes that

A. there is a reliable method for determining a city's demand for a new brand of toothpaste
B. some of the ten chosen cities will have greater demand for the toothpaste than will some of the others
C. the ten most populous regional cities and the ten regional cities with the greatest demand will be the same ten cities
D. customers will not care if the price of the toothpaste goes up due to the cost of marketing a product in a new region
E.someday, the toothpaste company will market its product nationally

getgyan · Answer

+1A

Premise - A regional toothpaste company has decided to expand its marketing region by ten cities. Rather than simply expand to the ten most populous cities in the region, the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste.

A. there is a reliable method for determining a city's demand for a new brand of toothpaste (If the demand cannot be calculated, how will they decide the ten cities where they want to expand. This option when negated destroys the premise and is thus our answer)
B. some of the ten chosen cities will have greater demand for the toothpaste than will some of the others (No, the company does not assume that)
C. the ten most populous regional cities and the ten regional cities with the greatest demand will be the same ten cities (It does not assume that, rather clearly states that the two are different)
D. customers will not care if the price of the toothpaste goes up due to the cost of marketing a product in a new region (Either they sell to populous cities or to regional cities, the price will not change as cost of marketing will be incurred anyhow)
E.someday, the toothpaste company will market its product nationally (Not so)

:-D

MacFauz · Answer

Must be A. The company assumes that it would be able to identify the cities in which there is a demand for a new tooth paste.

ranjeet75 · Answer

Why B is not an assumption because if we negate B,

some of the ten chosen cities will not have greater demand for the toothpaste than will some of the others

the conclusion also falls apart. Please correct me.

Archit143 · Answer

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mohnish104 · Answer

Clearly A. Negating B works but not as strong as it does for A.

plumber250 · Answer

Hi Ranjeet,

Let me see if I can help,

The way I see b:

some of the ten chosen cities will not have greater demand for the toothpaste than will some of the others

Is that it is possible for each of the 10 chosen cities to have identical demand, if this was the case, B would not be true and so you could have the argument without it.

Does that make sense?

All the best,

James

sri30kanth · Answer

Archit,

Thanks for the "interview question" but I feel this is bit different from the above question. There is no mention of "method" in the above question. I actually chose B. Still not convinced about choice A because no method or strategy is mentioned. Kindly explain. Thanks

pulak1988 · Answer

the company is assuming that its paste will sell more in the mentioned cities. this assumption depends on the selection of cities are perfect.

option A satisfies this criteria. its best to eliminate the other options first.

Iotaa · Answer

By eliminating choices:

A. there is a reliable method for determining a city's demand for a new brand of toothpaste ( seems fine. hold  
B. some of the ten chosen cities will have greater demand for the toothpaste than will some of the others ( may be or may not be. all the cities may have the same demand 
C. the ten most populous regional cities and the ten regional cities with the greatest demand will be the same ten cities( may be may not be. 
D. customers will not care if the price of the toothpaste goes up due to the cost of marketing a product in a new region ( irrelevant  
E.someday, the toothpaste company will market its product nationally ( may be may not be

B, C, D & E is a clear reject. Hence answer is A

Iotaa · Answer

beinglegal

1. Maybe the toothpaste company assumes that sales for all the states may be the same, that's why they selected these 10 particular locations.

2. If you negate this statement, the argument still holds valid.

adityaaaa21 · Answer

Conclusion: Rather than simply expand to the ten most populous cities in the region, the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste.

Premise: A regional toothpaste company has decided to expand its marketing region by ten cities.

Assumption: There are no problems with the plan. The plan to expand into the cities with the greatest demand is better than the alternative of using the ten most populous cities.

This is an assumption question, as evidenced by the phrase the toothpaste company's plan assumes. The passage uses the premise that a regional toothpaste company has decided to expand its marketing region by ten cities in order to conclude that rather than simply expand to the ten most populous cities in the region, the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste.

This argument contains a planning reasoning pattern, as identified by the question stem, which asks about the toothpaste company’s plan, and by the argument itself, which states that the company plans to expand. The company proposes a plan to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste. The standard assumption of an argument with a planning reasoning pattern is that there are no problems with the plan. For this argument, one potential problem with the proposed plan is that there is no evidence that targeting the ten cities with the greatest demand will work better than targeting the ten most populous cities, or that the plan will even work at all. Because this is an assumption question, the correct answer choice needs to either confirm the assumption that there are no problems or specifically remove a possible problem with the plan. Evaluate the answer choices, looking for one that reflects this idea.

Choice A: Correct. If, according to the passage, the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste, then there must be a reliable method for determining a city's demand. Since negating this answer makes the conclusion invalid, this answer choice contains a necessary assumption.

Choice B: No. The fact that some of the ten cities will have a greater demand is out of scope. The passage states that the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand without comparing the demand among those ten regional cities.

Choice C: No. The phrase the ten most populous regional cities and the ten regional cities with the greatest demand will be the same ten cities is extreme language. The passage indicates that there is a difference since it concludes rather than simply expand to the ten most populous cities in the region, the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste.

Choice D: No. The mention of what customers do not care about is out of scope. The passage states that the company plans to expand to the ten regional cities in which there is the greatest demand for a new brand of toothpaste, regardless of the price of the toothpaste.

Choice E: No. The mention of what the company will do someday is out of scope. This argument is only concerned with the company’s immediate plan to expand its marketing region by ten cities.

The correct answer is choice A.

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