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Diamond Enterprises is a store in Apisville that sells specialty luxur
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Diamond Enterprises is a store in Apisville that sells specialty luxury items. For several years, Diamond reaped substantial profits and was considering building branch stores in nearby counties. Stibium Industries, for several years the single largest employer in Apisville and the surrounding region, abruptly closed its plant last year, causing widespread unemployment. Only a fraction of the former Stibium workers have found new jobs, and many of these at much lower wages. Early this year, Diamond Enterprises has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the closure of Stibium as one of the primary causes.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage?
A. Diamond Enterprises would have avoided bankruptcy if it had followed through with the plan to build branch stores during its more prosperous years.
B. Stibium's management team had a corporate account with Diamond Enterprises, and ordered several luxury items used in business meetings and to entertain prospective clients.
C. Diamond's direct competitors, in Apisville and in the surrounding region, are much larger than Diamond, and therefore benefitted substantially from the conditions that arose after Stibium closed.
D. The closure of Stibium resulted in a loss of revenue for Diamond Enterprises.
E. After Stibium Industry closed, Diamond Enterprises was the single largest employer in Apisville.
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07 Aug 2015, 10:37
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close call between B and D....but will go with D since it involves the revenue loss which impacts Diamond enterprises on a large level. Waiting for the OA
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07 Aug 2015, 10:39
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The answer is any option that actually links stibium's closure to loss of revenue of Diamond. The closest options to do these are B and D. But B, does not indicate that Stibium's was the only corp account at diamond's hence going with straight forward option
. I dont know if the answer is this easy, so I am skeptical that I could be wrong. Experts please chime in.
A. Diamond Enterprises would have avoided bankruptcy if it had followed through with the plan to build branch stores during its more prosperous years. - Nothing in the argument indicates that building stores could have saved Diamond
B. Stibium's management team had a corporate account with Diamond Enterprises, and ordered several luxury items used in business meetings and to entertain prospective clients. - this could be correct is the argument had mentioned that stibium was probably the only or biggest corp accounts of Diamond
C. Diamond's direct competitors, in Apisville and in the surrounding region, are much larger than Diamond, and therefore benefitted substantially from the conditions that arose after Stibium closed. - not relevant
D. The closure of Stibium resulted in a loss of revenue for Diamond - correct
E. After Stibium Industry closed, Diamond Enterprises was the single largest employer in Apisville. - this wouldn't explain the bankruptcy
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07 Aug 2015, 12:30
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Diamond Enterprises is a store in Apisville that sells specialty luxury items. For several years, Diamond reaped substantial profits and was considering building branch stores in nearby counties. Stibium Industries, for several years the single largest employer in Apisville and the surrounding region, abruptly closed its plant last year, causing widespread unemployment. Only a fraction of the former Stibium workers have found new jobs, and many of these at much lower wages. Early this year, Diamond Enterprises has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the closure of Stibium as one of the primary causes.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage?
A. Diamond Enterprises would have avoided bankruptcy if it had followed through with the plan to build branch stores during its more prosperous years. (We cannot infer this since there is info relating to planning of DE)
B. Stibium's management team had a corporate account with Diamond Enterprises, and ordered several luxury items used in business meetings and to entertain prospective clients.(Even if there was an account, we cannot cite it as a reason for closure.)
C. Diamond's direct competitors, in Apisville and in the surrounding region, are much larger than Diamond, and therefore benefitted substantially from the conditions that arose after Stibium closed. (Out of scope since others benefited does not imply that DE has to close.)
D. The closure of Stibium resulted in a loss of revenue for Diamond Enterprises. (This can be inferred straightly.)
E. After Stibium Industry closed, Diamond Enterprises was the single largest employer in Apisville.(Cannot be inferred.....new info not mentioned in the passage.)
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07 Aug 2015, 15:11
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Pretty straight question. Although there are two close options to contend for correct answer, one beats the other on the ground of intensity of impact. The weaker option had some assumptions to make it more valuable or to make considerable. The other choice (which I belive is the correct answer) has direct and severe dependency on the conclusion and hence is the right answer.
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07 Aug 2015, 19:02
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Pre-thinking options : 1. Stibium employees used to buy luxury items from D.E. 2. Stibium used to supply cheap raw materials into D.E.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage?
A. Diamond Enterprises would have avoided bankruptcy if it had followed through with the plan to build branch stores during its more prosperous years.=>does not explain why D.E. failed
B. Stibium's management team had a corporate account with Diamond Enterprises, and ordered several luxury items used in business meetings and to entertain prospective clients.=> This is close, but we are concerned about employees. Management could still be there in the business, passage does not say anything about management.
C. Diamond's direct competitors, in Apisville and in the surrounding region, are much larger than Diamond, and therefore benefitted substantially from the conditions that arose after Stibium closed.=>So competitors can make DE out of the business, but is it related to Stibium employees? No. So this option cannot follow the premises mentioned in the para.
D. The closure of Stibium resulted in a loss of revenue for Diamond Enterprises.=>sounds like the crux of the pre-thinking options
E. After Stibium Industry closed, Diamond Enterprises was the single largest employer in Apisville.=>cannot think of a direct relation with bankruptcy-> this is the time-waster option- the more you try to relate/think the more time you end up wasting
PS. Option B is one of the typical naughty tricks GMAT plays with some questions.
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08 Aug 2015, 09:52
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This is bad! None of the answer choices seems to be correct to me
The fight is between B and D- B: Too specific. May or may not be true. Hence cant infer (but this can definitely be a solid strengthener) D: Introduces causality. How can i say that X resulted in Y just because X happened before Y !?! Hence cant infer _________________
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I think you can infer the causality from D (and also from B).
The causality would be in the folowing order: Diamond Enterprises was doing well->The factory closed->unemployment rose->people stoped buying at Diamond Enterprises->Diamond Enterprises was not doing well anymore->Diamond Enterprises went bankrupt.
D is better because if option B was true, it would be "included in" option D scope (both are about a loss of revenue after the factory closed).
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20 Dec 2015, 17:56
this is an inference type of questions, and the answer must be 100% true based on the information given.
only answer choice D re-states what actually the argument says.
during the pre-thinking, we might consider that workers of S were clients of DE. now, since most of the workers are left without a job, and since only a minority of workers found jobs, but at lower wages, then they did not continue to buy from DE. thus, the closure of S lead to an economic disaster of the ex-workers, who were clients of DE. Since these clients can no longer afford what they could before, DE now has no clients. thus, the revenue considerably decreased. B is a tempting one, but since it is an inference question, we need to find an answer choice that does not provide additional, irrelevant, information.
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07 Jul 2016, 05:19
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I dont think this is 600-700 level question. At best it is sub 600.. The only trick I can imagine is test taker getting confused on seeing the very clear cut and obvious answer
At times obviousness of answer choices doesnt make a question tough but the length of a passage surely does. You are right that its starightfwd but it takes at least 1 minute to figure out what the passage says and demands, which makes it 600-700
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07 Jul 2016, 10:46
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Diamond Enterprises is a store in Apisville that sells specialty luxury items. For several years, Diamond reaped substantial profits and was considering building branch stores in nearby counties. Stibium Industries, for several years the single largest employer in Apisville and the surrounding region, abruptly closed its plant last year, causing widespread unemployment. Only a fraction of the former Stibium workers have found new jobs, and many of these at much lower wages. Early this year, Diamond Enterprises has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the closure of Stibium as one of the primary causes. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage?
a.)Diamond Enterprises would have avoided bankruptcy if it had followed through with the plan to build branch stores during its more prosperous years. b.)Stibium’s management team had a corporate account with Diamond Enterprises, and ordered several luxury items used in business meetings and to entertain prospective clients. c.)Diamond’s direct competitors, in Apisville and in the surrounding region, are much larger than Diamond, and therefore benefitted substantially from the conditions that arose after Stibium closed. d.)The closure of Stibium resulted in a loss of revenue for Diamond Enterprises. e.)After Stibium Industry closed, Diamond Enterprises was the single largest employer in Apisville
DE has filed bankruptcy and cited S as the cause. We know that S closed its plant last year. If we combine both these statements, we get an idea that S used to buy stuff from DE , and now because S is not in business anymore, DE is facing some business loss.
a.)Diamond Enterprises would have avoided bankruptcy if it had followed through with the plan to build branch stores during its more prosperous years. We don't know about this.
b.)Stibium’s management team had a corporate account with Diamond Enterprises, and ordered several luxury items used in business meetings and to entertain prospective clients. But way closure of S was the reason for DE bankruptcy filing. Also, having a corporate account has nothing to do with Bakruptcy filing.
c.)Diamond’s direct competitors, in Apisville and in the surrounding region, are much larger than Diamond, and therefore benefitted substantially from the conditions that arose after Stibium closed. We want to know if there was some negative effect on DE.
d.)The closure of Stibium resulted in a loss of revenue for Diamond Enterprises. Correct answer. That is what we concluded before looking at answer choices.
e.)After Stibium Industry closed, Diamond Enterprises was the single largest employer in Apisville. Reason for bankruptcy? _________________
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The credited answer is (D). We know Diamond had high profits before Stibium closed, and we know it was close to bankruptcy after Stibium closed, citing Stibum's closure as one of the primary causes. There, in some way, as a result of Stibium closing, Diamond lost revenue. Consider the opposite of (D): If Stibium closed, and that caused no revenue loss for Diamond, then how on earth could Diamond cite the closure of Stibium as one of the causes of its plummet from high profits to bankruptcy? The opposite of (D) is a scenario that makes no sense, so (D) is an unavoidable inference, very well supported.
Choice (A) is a tempting answer. Would branches of other Diamond stores in other towns have reaped profits, enough to avoid the bankruptcy mentioned? Perhaps. That's certainly a plausible possibility, but we don't know for sure. If we don't know for sure, it's not a good inference. (A) is incorrect.
Choice (B) is way too specific in the kind of assumptions it makes. It seems that Diamond was getting some kind of revenue from Stibium, but was it the management buying perks? or rank-and-file workers buying treats for themselves? We don't know. Anything that spins a highly specific story is too much to infer strictly from the information in the prompt. (B) is incorrect.
Choice (C) makes too many assumptions --- does this specialty store Diamond have direct competitors in the region? if so, are these competitors larger? was "being larger" an advantage in the economic conditions that resulted from Stibium's closure? There are too many things we don't know, so we can draw a clear inference. (C) is incorrect.
Choice (E) is entirely unfounded. We have no idea how big Diamond is, and we have no idea what other employers Apisville might have. (E) is incorrect. (D) is by far the best answer. _________________
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