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Goronian lawmaker: Goronia's Cheese Importation Board, the agency responsible for inspecting all wholesale shipments of cheese entering Goronia from abroad and rejecting shipments that fail to meet specified standards, rejects about one percent of the cheese that it inspects. Since the health consequences and associated costs of not rejecting that one percent would be negligible, whereas the cost of maintaining the agency is not, the agency's cost clearly outweighs the benefits it provides.
Knowing the answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the lawmaker's argument?
A. Are any of the types of cheeses that are imported into Goronia also produced in Goronia?
B. Has the Cheese Importation Board, over the last several years, reduced its operating costs by eliminating inefficiencies within the agency itself?
C. Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese Importation Board deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?
D. Are there any exporters of cheese to Goronia whose merchandise is never rejected by the Cheese Importation Board?
E. How is the cheese rejected by the Cheese Importation Board disposed of?
Knowing the answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the lawmaker's argument?
A. Are any of the types of cheeses that are imported into Goronia also produced in Goronia?
B. Has the Cheese Importation Board, over the last several years, reduced its operating costs by eliminating inefficiencies within the agency itself?
C. Does the possibility of having merchandise rejected by the Cheese Importation Board deter many cheese exporters from shipping substandard cheese to Goronia?
D. Are there any exporters of cheese to Goronia whose merchandise is never rejected by the Cheese Importation Board?
E. How is the cheese rejected by the Cheese Importation Board disposed of?
26 Jul 2012, 07:53
Kudos
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it wasn't an easy one !
Lawmaker's thought:-
The importation board or the agency has less work and what it typically does? refuse 1% of the total incoming shipment of cheese?why to employ this agency and pay them well where as the import can simply go because 1% is anyway a small figure to look upon.
Evaluation of argument may be for positive or negative aspect and if we look at (C)
we will get to know that whether the agency is refusing only one exporter(brand) or many brands ? because if it is only one brand then we can stop or ban that brand and let the other brands continue and so e would not need this agency to monitor all this import. BUT IF there are many brands who are getting rejected then it means that the agency is doing a good job in scrutinizing the good import .
Lawmaker's thought:-
The importation board or the agency has less work and what it typically does? refuse 1% of the total incoming shipment of cheese?why to employ this agency and pay them well where as the import can simply go because 1% is anyway a small figure to look upon.
Evaluation of argument may be for positive or negative aspect and if we look at (C)
we will get to know that whether the agency is refusing only one exporter(brand) or many brands ? because if it is only one brand then we can stop or ban that brand and let the other brands continue and so e would not need this agency to monitor all this import. BUT IF there are many brands who are getting rejected then it means that the agency is doing a good job in scrutinizing the good import .
General Discussion
30 Jul 2012, 00:47
Kudos
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maybeam
My 2 cents:
Assumption in the argument is: 1% rejection is not enuf to offset the cost to the agency - the "1%" is not helping.... (given the time constraint - i just prephrase this much) - Basis my prephrase, i started looking for, how could i bring in the support statement, which can help evaluate the value of that 1%?
My reasoning against each option:
A. Doesn't help, irrelevant
B. Doesn't help, digresses from the point of "1%" rejection
C. It reinforces the fact that the "1%" rejection rate is helping in detering cheese exporters to export low quality cheese
D. How does it matter? so irrelevant
E. How means of disposal help? so irrelevant
Cheers
GODSPEED
This cant help us.
OFS
