Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized for You
we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Track Your Progress
every week, we’ll send you an estimated GMAT score based on your performance
Practice Pays
we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Thank you for using the timer!
We noticed you are actually not timing your practice. Click the START button first next time you use the timer.
There are many benefits to timing your practice, including:
Quant Quizzes are back with a Bang and with lots of Prizes. The first Quiz will be on 8th Dec, 6PM PST (7:30AM IST). The Quiz will be Live for 12 hrs. Solution can be posted anytime between 6PM-6AM PST. Please click the link for all of the details.
Join IIMU Director to gain an understanding of DEM program, its curriculum & about the career prospects through a Q&A chat session. Dec 11th at 8 PM IST and 6:30 PST
Enter The Economist GMAT Tutor’s Brightest Minds competition – it’s completely free! All you have to do is take our online GMAT simulation test and put your mind to the test. Are you ready? This competition closes on December 13th.
Attend a Veritas Prep GMAT Class for Free. With free trial classes you can work with a 99th percentile expert free of charge. Learn valuable strategies and find your new favorite instructor; click for a list of upcoming dates and teachers.
Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years
[#permalink]
Show Tags
Updated on: 04 Mar 2019, 02:23
3
5
00:00
A
B
C
D
E
Difficulty:
25% (medium)
Question Stats:
76% (02:01) correct 24% (02:10) wrong based on 587 sessions
HideShow timer Statistics
Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years, they have primarily served manufacturers of domestic agricultural equipment, and over time, this market has been decreasing. A consultant recommended that, with a minor modification, Algorpal could expand into pneumatic filters for biomedical research technology, a rapidly expanding market. The consultant argued that this single change could reverse a ten-year decline in Algorpal’s profits.
Which of the following would be the most useful to establish in evaluating the consultant’s recommendation?
A. Whether other markets, such as food processing and food service, would offer greater opportunities for potential profits.
B. Whether the number of biomedical devices at any single research center is greater than the number of pieces of equipment requiring filters on a single farm.
C. How the ambient indoor air quality in a biomedical research center compares to the typical outdoor air quality in an agricultural zone.
D. Whether the competition in the biomedical technology sector would allow for profits similar to what those in the agricultural sector had been
E. Whether countries with expanding agricultural sectors would use farm equipment similarly to the domestic equipment current served by Algorpal.
Day 23 Question of the Verbal Contest: Race Against the GMAT Club Timer Please make sure to post a brief reply without revealing your solution to enter the contest!
Re: Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years
[#permalink]
Show Tags
12 Aug 2015, 11:09
1
Quote:
Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years, they have primarily served manufacturers of domestic agricultural equipment, and over time, this market has been decreasing. A consultant recommended that, with a minor modification, Algorpal could expand into pneumatic filters for biomedical research technology, a rapidly expanding market. The consultant argued that this single change could reverse a ten-year decline in Algorpal’s profits.
Which of the following would be the most useful to establish in evaluating the consultant’s recommendation?
A. Whether other markets, such as food processing and food service, would offer greater opportunities for potential profits.
B. Whether the number of biomedical devices at any single research center is greater than the number of pieces of equipment requiring filters on a single farm.
C. How the ambient indoor air quality in a biomedical research center compares to the typical outdoor air quality in an agricultural zone.
D. Whether the competition in the biomedical technology sector would allow for profits similar to what those in the agricultural sector had been
E. Whether countries with expanding agricultural sectors would use farm equipment similarly to the domestic equipment current served by Algorpal.
A consultant recommendation: 1. Algorpal could expand into pneumatic filters for biomedical research technology, a rapidly expanding market. 2. The consultant argued that this single change could reverse a ten-year decline in Algorpal’s profits.
Option A: Information related to other markets is completely out of scope.
Option B: Whether the number of biomedical devices is greater or less than the number of pieces of equipment requiring filters on a single farm is irrelevant to the profits as claimed by the consultant.
Option C: Same as of B. This can be true but Air quality will not give any info regarding the profits.
Option D: If there is a stiff competition then it may prove to be difficult to gain profits and if the competition is less compared to agricultural sector then firm may gain profits. This info is needed to evaluate the argument properly.
Option E: Info regarding other countries is completely out of scope and is not going explain anything.
Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years, they have primarily served manufacturers of domestic agricultural equipment, and over time, this market has been decreasing. A consultant recommended that, with a minor modification, Algorpal could expand into pneumatic filters for biomedical research technology, a rapidly expanding market. The consultant argued that this single change could reverse a ten-year decline in Algorpal’s profits.
Which of the following would be the most useful to establish in evaluating the consultant’s recommendation?
A. Whether other markets, such as food processing and food service, would offer greater opportunities for potential profits. - Food processing and food service is not related here.
B. Whether the number of biomedical devices at any single research center is greater than the number of pieces of equipment requiring filters on a single farm. - not a related comparison. So this is incorrect.
C. How the ambient indoor air quality in a biomedical research center compares to the typical outdoor air quality in an agricultural zone. - air quality is irrelevant
D. Whether the competition in the biomedical technology sector would allow for profits similar to what those in the agricultural sector had been - This is surely one factor although not the only one that will actually help evaluate the consultant's recommendation. hence the best choice.
E. Whether countries with expanding agricultural sectors would use farm equipment similarly to the domestic equipment current served by Algorpal. - this does not support the consultants stand, so this is ruled out.
Re: Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years
[#permalink]
Show Tags
04 Aug 2018, 00:23
1
Official Explanation
The core of the consultant's argument is: branching into this new sector will bring new profits, profits to replace what was lost in the agriculture sector. The credited answer is (D): whether branching into this new biomedical sector indeed will replace the former profits.
Choice (A) raises a different question, profits from a third sector not mentioned. This might offer yet another alternative, but it's not directly relevant to the question: will entering the biomedical sector replace former profits?
Choice (B) might appear to be relevant to the question of profits, but suppose we knew the precise answer to this --- suppose we knew, say, that each farm had five machines and each research center had three machines. Then what? How many farms overall are there? How many biomedical research centers overall are there? We don't know, so we can't evaluate the question of total profits.
Choice (C) is an interesting distractor. Whatever a pneumatic filter may filter, it probably has something to do with air. Are these filters filtering ambient air in the room, or are they filtering some particular internal channel within the machine? We don't know, and even if we did, we would still be a long way off from deciding anything about profits.
Choice (E), like Choice (A), offers another option, another avenue that Algorpal might decide to follow instead of, or in addition to, the consultant's recommendation. The task here, though, quite specifically, is to evaluate the consultant's recommendation. How successful another avenue would be tells us nothing about how successful the plan recommended by the consultant would be.
_________________
Simple strategy: “Once you’ve eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Re: Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years
[#permalink]
Show Tags
04 Mar 2019, 02:07
I choose D because all other options are irrelevant. Please explain why D is correct?
In conclusion, the consultant tells that the decline in the profits could be reversed. i.e the profits will increase. But answer choice D question the profits? Why do we question about profitability when the author has told that the decline in profits will be reversed.
Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years
[#permalink]
Show Tags
26 Sep 2019, 01:47
vards wrote:
Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years, they have primarily served manufacturers of domestic agricultural equipment, and over time, this market has been decreasing. A consultant recommended that, with a minor modification, Algorpal could expand into pneumatic filters for biomedical research technology, a rapidly expanding market. The consultant argued that this single change could reverse a ten-year decline in Algorpal’s profits.
Which of the following would be the most useful to establish in evaluating the consultant’s recommendation?
A. Whether other markets, such as food processing and food service, would offer greater opportunities for potential profits.
B. Whether the number of biomedical devices at any single research center is greater than the number of pieces of equipment requiring filters on a single farm.
C. How the ambient indoor air quality in a biomedical research center compares to the typical outdoor air quality in an agricultural zone.
D. Whether the competition in the biomedical technology sector would allow for profits similar to what those in the agricultural sector had been
E. Whether countries with expanding agricultural sectors would use farm equipment similarly to the domestic equipment current served by Algorpal.
Day 23 Question of the Verbal Contest: Race Against the GMAT Club Timer Please make sure to post a brief reply without revealing your solution to enter the contest!
The argument is based on the assumption that the new product will sell significantly on the new market. Any option choice that will help answer the question: "will this new product's profits compensate for the loss in profits?" will be our answer choice.
All options are irrelevant except for D. If the answer to D is YES then the argument is strengthened. If the answer is NO the argument is weakened.
Re: Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years
[#permalink]
Show Tags
27 Nov 2019, 13:26
mallya12 wrote:
I choose D because all other options are irrelevant. Please explain why D is correct?
In conclusion, the consultant tells that the decline in the profits could be reversed. i.e the profits will increase. But answer choice D question the profits? Why do we question about profitability when the author has told that the decline in profits will be reversed.
I'm also having trouble understanding why D is correct. We are not told what the company's profitability had been.
gmatclubot
Re: Algorpal Industries produces high quality pneumatic filters. For years
[#permalink]
27 Nov 2019, 13:26
close
76% (02:01) correct 
