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In 2003 an airline in United States lost more than half, on average, of the foreign passengers they had previously served each year. Researchers have alleged that this extreme drop resulted from a rise in price of tickets for international lines from $60 to $90 per 1,000 miles.

Which of the following, if feasible, offers the best prospects for alleviating the problem of the drop in passengers as the researchers assessed it?

A. Cooperating with other airlines to provide more international lines.

B. Allowing foreign passengers to pay the same as the previous international line

C. Reemphasizing the goals and mission of the airline as serving both domestic passengers and foreign passengers

D. Increasing the financial resources of the airline by raising the ticket price for domestic passengers

E. Offering superior VIP service for foreign passengers.

PrashantK0099 · Answer

IMO B

It clearly mentions an increase in prices is the reason for the drop in the number of foreign passengers.

So, if the prices are back to normal, those passengers would be using airlines again.

AkashAgarwal1 · Answer

It is clearly mentioned in the para that drop in passenger is due to hike in prices. So it's clear if we have to increase number of passengers , we have to reduce the prices or make it similar to orebioudy one..

So correct answer is B

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So correct answer is B

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ShankSouljaBoi · Answer

We dont want the airline to lose money either . I will go with D in place of B . Its tricky, will wait for OE

winterschool · Answer

In 2003 an airline in United States lost more than half, on average, of the foreign passengers they had previously served each year. Researchers have alleged that this extreme drop resulted from a rise in price of tickets for international lines from $60 to $90 per 1,000 miles.

Which of the following, if feasible, offers the best prospects for alleviating the problem of the drop in passengers as the researchers assessed it?

A. Cooperating with other airlines to provide more international lines.  Incorrect

B. Allowing foreign passengers to pay the same as the previous international line  Correct

C. Reemphasizing the goals and mission of the airline as serving both domestic passengers and foreign passengers  Incorrect

D. Increasing the financial resources of the airline by raising the ticket price for domestic passengers  Incorrect

E. Offering superior VIP service for foreign passengers.  Incorrect

already knows from researchers assessed that increase ticket price is the main reason for decrease passengers, so decrease ticket price can alleviate this problem

Answer should be B

Sajjad1994 · Answer

The researchers attribute the drop in passengers of foreign passengers to an increased price in tickets. If researchers are correct, reducing these prices should halt the drop in passengers.  B  offers a plan for reducing these prices and so is the best answer. The reasoning of the stimulus can be expressed as:

A (a rise in price of ticket for foreign passengers) =>B (extreme drop of passengers ) Then ~B (drop of passengers did not continue) =>~A (price decreases for foreign passengers)

None of  C, D and E  offers a plan that would reduce the prices taken to be responsible for the drop in passengers. Nor does A offer such a plan: because the problem to be addressed is a drop in foreign passengers, providing more international lines, as A suggests, would offer no prospect of alleviating the problem.

Answer: B

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