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Neighbourhood hubs are using the same strategy to achieve the desired result.So point B is the answer.

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Mgt. is arguing that if neighborhoods are allowed to trade truck assignments then the avg. delivery time can be reduced. this is what we need to evaluate.

Let's look at the options:

A discusses shipping deadlines and truck usage frequency but the mgt. plan focuses on intensity of use to reduce delivery times, not deadlines. Eliminate
B is a problematic choice because the premise already told us that each delivery hub has been assigned same number of trucks. Eliminate
C brings in new info and doesn't really assess the picture in hand.Eliminate
D talks about a very relevant factor. Keep
-> If every truck is already in use all day long, there’s nothing to trade and no way to speed things up.
-> If there are some idle trucks during the day which are not fully utilized, then truck-trading can really shorten overall delivery times
E talks about how trades are recorded in the scheduling system. this doesn't impact whether trading reduces delivery time.Eliminate

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We need an answer choice which would give us that confidence whether there are any Neighbourhood which has some without use trucks?
That D has provided.

D

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A large retailer has limited fleet of same day delivery trucks. There are less trucks than the neighborhoods require to shorten delivery times. Senior management believes allowing neighborhoods trade assignment freely it can move trucks from places where they are less needed to places where they are more required. This is only possible if there are neighborhoods who have idle trucks at any point during the day. Thus option D is the answer.

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Company wants to reduce delivery time by letting busy hubs get more trucks through trading.
we need to check wether giving more trucks to busy hubs actually help reduce delivery time or not.

Option (A):
Asks if hubs with tight deadlines use trucks more often.
Just tells current usage, not if more trucks will help.

Option (B):
Asks if hubs that use trucks more already have faster delivery because of having more trucks.
Directly checks if more trucks = faster delivery, which is the goal of the plan

Option(C):
Compares company trucks vs. third-party trucks.
Not related to truck trading between hubs

Option(D):
Asks if some hubs have idle trucks.
Shows truck trading is possible,
But doesn't tell if trading will reduce delivery time.

Option(E):
Asks if hubs will record truck trading in a system.
About tracking, not about effectiveness of the plan.

Final answer Option (B)

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To evaluate the plan, we need to look for the option which supports the plan’s logic that more trucks, faster delivery.

(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
- Irrelevant.
It talks about usage. No relation with delivery time.

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucksa

- This makes sense.
If more trucks, shorter delivery time. Then trading trucks will help.

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers

- Irrelevant
The plan has nothing to do with outsourcing or doing in-house.

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day

- It may be true, but irrelevant to the plan

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
- Out of scope.
Implementation details is not needed to evaluate the plan

Answer: B

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A large retailer operates a limited fleet of same-day-delivery trucks. For years, each neighborhood delivery hub has been assigned the same number of trucks, regardless of the daily order volume in that neighborhood. To shorten overall delivery times, senior management now plans to let neighborhood hubs trade truck assignments freely. Management argues that trading will move more trucks to the neighborhoods that rely on them most intensively, thereby reducing average delivery time across the company.

To evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?

(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system

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(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods The frequency does not matter, what matters is the delivery time

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks Extent of usage is not important but delivery time is

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers Out of scope

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day Correct. If this is true then moving trucks will be impossible because there are no trucks to move

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system Irrelevant
ANS D

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(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
Irrelevant as it tells us about how busy some hubs are, but not whether trading trucks will reduce delivery time.

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
Relevant because if hubs that use more trucks also achieve shorter delivery times, then giving them more trucks via trading could reduce overall delivery time. This helps evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
Irrelevant as this is about internal vs external shipping methods, not about the impact of trading trucks among hubs.

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
Less relevant as it doesn't tell us whether moving them would improve delivery times. Just tells us that some trucks are not utilized properly and is helpful background

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
Irrelevant as this is about tracking or administration, not about effectiveness of the plan in reducing delivery times

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks

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o evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?

(A) ~~Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods~~ [SCOPE; irrelevant to proposed plan]

(B) ~~Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks~~ [SCOPE; irrelevant to proposed plan]

(C) ~~Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers~~ [Out of Scope; the plan is about using the company's extra capacity using its own idle or over supply of trucks and personnel]

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day --> this is the most pertinent question to the plan: The plan relies on the assumption that there are some deliver hubs that are at full capacity, and some that are not; and therefore, delivery times can be shortened if capacity was essentially transferred to where it was most needed. Therefore, knowing which, if any, delivery hubs have idle trucks and extra capacity is essential to the plan.

(E) ~~Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system~~ [Out of Scope]

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Plan:
Neighborhood hubs can trade truck assignment freely.
Goal: Reduce delivery time across company.
Reasoning provided by management: Trading will move more trucks over to neighborhoods that rely on them most intensively

Pre-thinking:
They have limited same day delivery trucks. If neighborhood decide themselves truck will go where needed therefore will reduce delivery time since no delays in waiting. Assumption made is more trucks actually reduce time.

Answers:
(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods.

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks (This seems about right we need to evaluate does delivery time reduces with more trucks or not)

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers. (This seems like an alt. plan. Plan is to give the authority of truck trading to neighborhood hubs not to see whether their trucks are used or third party carriers)

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day. (This tells about how they can make those truck occupied by studying this but will not have effect on whether the plan will fail or succeed)

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system. (This is execution of the plan but this doesnt tell if delivery time is reduced or not)

Answer B

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Options B and D were the most attractive. Out of these, I feel option D is most useful since that will tell us if there is any operational efficiency to be improved.
Option B can be eliminated on the grounds that the hubs having the most trucks still may not have shorter delivery times compared to other hubs since they are operationally more backed up and having more trucks helps them manage the volume and keep things at status quo.

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Pre thinking: Looking at the passage and the options, it seems like at the neighbourhoods with large order volumes, the trucks have to make more to and fro trips to accommodate the orders. That's the only way having more trucks at neighborhoods with more order volume will help, as the trucks now can take more orders with them in one go, thus reducing average delivery times. We look for answers that support this.
A: This is the statement that would have confirmed our line of thought, only if it was about order volume rather than tighter shipping deadlines. Eliminate.
B: This is what will help us evaluate the company's plan, if the neighbourhoods that use the trucks more frequently will be able to reduce their delivery times.
C: Outsourcing is out of the bounds of this passage. Eliminate.
D: This doesn't really help us evaluate whether the company's plan will be able to achieve its intended result as even if there aren't any idle trucks, the trucks could still be traded and the neighbourhoods with less delivery orders will just have to make some adjustments with truck travel frequency and load of delivery orders. Eliminate.
E: Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system, does not really affect the result nor the circumstances. Eliminate.

Option B.

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(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
This is somewhat relevant, but it doesn't directly address whether reallocating trucks will reduce delivery times. Even if hubs with tighter deadlines use trucks more frequently, it doesn't guarantee that giving them more trucks will improve overall efficiency.

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
It assumes that giving more trucks to busy hubs helps, but if no hubs have spare trucks to trade, the plan fails. D is better.

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
This is irrelevant to the plan, which focuses on reallocating existing trucks, not outsourcing.

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
It is better than B, because it goes a step further by confirming whether the reallocation is even possible without causing new inefficiencies. CORRECT

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
This is about how tracking trades are implemented, not whether the plan will work as intended.

IMO D

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To evaluate whether this plan is likely to achieve its intended result, we need an option which helps us know whether moving more trucks to intensively used neighborhoods actually result in shorter delivery times (DT)

(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods. This choice will tell us the demand/utilization of trucks in the neighborhoods, but it doesn’t tell us whether the plan will achieve its result. Incorrect.

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks. This is what we were looking for. Yes: the existing trucks are being used intensively and achieving shorter DT. A no would state the opposite. Correct.

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers. Irrelevant. We’re not concerned about the effectiveness of in-house delivery with outsourcing. Incorrect.

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day. This choice provides info about the availability of trucks but would utilizing these idle trucks for neighborhoods result in shorter DT is not answered. Incorrect.

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system. This choice is completely irrelevant as it tells us about implementation and monitoring of the plan but will this lead to expected results? Not answered! Incorrect.

Option B is the best.

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Premise : establishing trading hubs will move trucks to the neighbourhoods that rely extensively on them which in result will shorten average delivery time

A) using trucks more frequently to meet deadlines at some neighbourhoods doesn't mean that plan will be successful, it may be the reason behind coming up with such plan.
B) that's what expected from the plan
C) whether outsourcing to third-party carriers will be effective or not is not company's concern
D) if none of neighbourhoods have idle trucks during the day, it will sabotage the company's plan (most helpful)
E) again outsourcing can be good or bad , but it's not centre of discussion

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Logic of argument : trading trucks > more effective usage of trucks in areas which need them more > reduce delivery time

Eliminated A C and E first :

(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods- this talks about current usage of trucks by intensive areas. But we need to find what happens when trucks are traded. This does not help evaluate whether delivery time will be reduced or not.

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers- argument only talks about company trucks. Comparison with third party trucks is irrelevant here

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system- Whether or not it will be done in a central scheduling system does not imply any effect on the delivery time. This is not useful to evaluate our conclusion

Between B and D

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
While this might seem like a good evaluate statement - having idle trucks does not tell us what would happen if we supply idle trucks to the other intensive areas. Yes it is stating that there is capacity and potential if there are idle trucks , but does not tell us what would happen past that potential.... so even if there are idle trucks, the plan would only work if sending those trucks to intensive areas reduces delivery time

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks -
Using Yes/No on this:
Yes: neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks - this shows that if trucks are supplied to more intensive areas - they WILL achieve shorter times - strengthens the conclusoion

No: neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively will not achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks - this shows that trading to supply more trucks will not have any impact on delivery time- weakens our conclusion

From above analysis B is correct choice here

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Option B is a clear winner here.

Premise: Trading will move more trucks to the neighborhoods that rely on them most intensively.

Conclusion: It will reduce delivery time.

Logical Gap: More trucks lead to reduced delivery time.

Option B identifies the logical gap correctly.

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Option B is the correct answer.

Let's understand the passage before trying to answer the question.

So the passage starts by telling us that a large retailer operates a certain limited number of same day delivery trucks. And it further tells us that for years each of the neighborhood delivery hubs has been assigned the same number of trucks regardless of their daily order volume in the neighborhood. And now to reduce the overall delivery time a senior manager has plans to let neighborhood hubs trade truck assignments freely which means that the number of trucks assigned to the neighborhood hubs does not depend on the factor that how many trucks does the large retailer operates. Now the management argues that trading will move more trucks to the neighborhoods that rely on them most intensively, thereby reducing average delivery time across the company.
Then the question asks us to evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result, it would be most helpful to know which of the following.

Now to answer the evaluate type of question the way best to find the ideal answer is to test each option with extremes test, in this test we take the option to two polar opposite extremes such that one extreme will strengthen the argument and the other one will weaken it. And whichever option meets these conditions will be our answer.

Let's dive into the options and see which one of them is our answer.

Option A: "Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods". Let's take this option to the first extreme i.e. "the neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods" now this extreme tells us that facing tighter deadlines leads to the frequent use of truck which will strengthen the need for a law/regulation will which will remove the limit put on the number of trucks a hub can have. Now let's see the other extreme i.e. "neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently do not use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods" this options tells us that even after the tight deadlines the hubs does not use their truck more frequently than the hub who doesn't face such right deadlines, so this extreme neither weakens the argument not strengths it, whereas in the condition we discussed it was clear that one will strengthen the argument and the other will weaken it. Eliminated

Option B: "Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks". Let's take the extremes for this option i.e. "neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively are able to achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks" this option clearly strengthens the argument by telling us that hubs are able to decrease the delivery timing if they have more/extra trucks. Now let's check the other extreme "neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively are unable to achieve shorter delivery times even after having more trucks" this options weakens the argument by telling us that even after having more trucks the delivery time has not decreased for the hubs which tells us that the managers decision will not meet the intended purpose but still let's check other options as well before concluding our answer. Selected

Option C: "Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers". After reading this options which asks us "using third party trucks reduce the time more efficiently in comparison to company's own truck or not" we can say that this option is irrelevant because the question only talks about removing the limiting factor on the hubs which limits the number of trucks each hub can have and whether third party trucks work more efficiently or not is not our concern because it might be possible that the hub might not take help from third party. Eliminated

Option D: "Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day". This option is also irrelevant to the question because a hub can have a idle truck at its centre and still unable to deliver the products on time or unable to reduce the delivery time because a truck can be in ideal condition for many reasons like due to the driver didn't came, truck is not working properly and many more. Eliminated

Option E: "Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system". This option is the easiest to eliminate because whether or not hubs need to record the truck trading activity in the system does not help to tell whether or not the law that limits the number of trucks a hub can have will achieve its target or not. Eliminated

So after reading and checking all the options we can now confirm that only Option B gives us the required answer.

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(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
Knowing they use trucks more doesn't tell us if adding more trucks will reduce delivery times.

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
This checks if the idea of trucks imply faster deliveries in high-demand areas. But it doesn't tell us if spare trucks exist to make this possible.

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
This is about outsourcing, not redistributing existing trucks between hubs.

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
Without idle trucks to trade, the whole plan falls apart.

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
This is about how the plan will be managed, not whether it will succeed in reducing delivery time.

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(A) Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
Understanding whether certain neighborhoods use trucks more frequently could help assess whether moving trucks to these areas would be beneficial. However, this doesn't directly answer whether truck trading will reduce overall delivery time.

(B) Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
Important, but secondary. If no idle trucks exist, the answer to this queston doesn't matter.

(C) Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
It deals with whether in-house trucks are more efficient than third-party ones but doesn't address the specific question about redistributing trucks within the company's fleet.

(D) Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day is the most helpful to evaluate the plan. It confirms whether the key precondition for successful trading, available trucks to reallocate, exists.

(E) Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
This is an operational question that deals with tracking the logistics of truck trading. While important for implementation, it doesn't help assess the impact on delivery times.

The right answer is D

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