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Manager: the new manufacturing process should save us time overall, even though the first step of the five-step process will take twice as long as it does under the old process. Under the new process, far fewer of the components will be found defective, and the sole purpose of steps two and three under the old process is to weed out defective components. As a result, we should be able to eliminate two of the five steps in the existing manufacturing process.
Which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the claim made in the argument?
A. Whether factory workers will requirement training in order to use the new manufacturing process
B. Whether the new process is likely to introduce deficiencies or imperfections that must be corrected
C. Whether defective components can be fixed or must be thrown out
D. Whether a third manufacturing process would save even more time than both the old and new manufacturing processes
E. Whether saving time with the new manufacturing process will ultimately lead to cost savings for the company.
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Manager: the new manufacturing process should save us time overall, even though the first step of the five-step process will take twice as long as it does under the old process. Under the new process, far fewer of the components will be found defective, the sole purpose of steps two and three under the old process is to weed out defective components. fewer defects doesn't mean no defects. and these effects should be handled somewhere in the process. only B addresses this issue.
The Conclusion of the Argument is As a result, we should be able to eliminate two of the five steps in the existing manufacturing process.
Option B states that Whether the new process is likely to introduce deficiencies or imperfections that must be corrected ?
If the Answer of this question is Yes, then the conclusion is weakened(we may be not be able to eliminate both the steps) and if it is no, the conclusion is strengthened that we can eliminate two of the five steps absolutely.
C on the other hand talks about defective components can be fixed or must be thrown out, which is out of scope for this Argument.
The Conclusion of the Argument is As a result, we should be able to eliminate two of the five steps in the existing manufacturing process.
Option B states that Whether the new process is likely to introduce deficiencies or imperfections that must be corrected ?
If the Answer of this question is Yes, then the conclusion is weakened(we may be not be able to eliminate both the steps) and if it is no, the conclusion is strengthened that we can eliminate two of the five steps absolutely.
C on the other hand talks about defective components can be fixed or must be thrown out, which is out of scope for this Argument.
Hope this helps!
Is C out of scope? I think it only weakens.
IMO, evaluate choice as rightly mentioned based on a yes or no should strengthen and weaken for us to be able to evaluate. However, acc to C defective components exist - whether it must be fixed or thrown out is a different ball game - Existing alone weakens the arg that says 2 and 3 are eliminated because it avoids the defective weeding out steps. Agree?
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22 Sep 2018, 14:47
vad3tha wrote:
Manager: the new manufacturing process should save us time overall, even though the first step of the five-step process will take twice as long as it does under the old process. Under the new process, far fewer of the components will be found defective, and the sole purpose of steps two and three under the old process is to weed out defective components. As a result, we should be able to eliminate two of the five steps in the existing manufacturing process.
Which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the claim made in the argument?
A. Whether factory workers will requirement training in order to use the new manufacturing process B. Whether the new process is likely to introduce deficiencies or imperfections that must be corrected C. Whether defective components can be fixed or must be thrown out D. Whether a third manufacturing process would save even more time than both the old and new manufacturing processes E. Whether saving time with the new manufacturing process will ultimately lead to cost savings for the company.
I eliminated A, C, and D pretty easily on the grounds that they were OOS or were not related closely to the argument.
Choosing between B and E was tough, but I eliminated E because it is about cost savings for the company. Obviously in any business cost savings is extremely important, but I decided that was not what we were talking about here. We have an argument about saving time, which is equally as important as $$$.
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A. Whether factory workers will requirement training in order to use the new manufacturing process Maybe or maybe not. If they did but only a little bit, it wouldnt effect us etc. OOS.
B. Whether the new process is likely to introduce deficiencies or imperfections that must be corrected If this is "must be" and that case happens, our new idea will fail us. keep it.
C. Whether defective components can be fixed or must be thrown out We dont care. OOS.
D. Whether a third manufacturing process would save even more time than both the old and new manufacturing processes We are talking about this one. OOS.
E. Whether saving time with the new manufacturing process will ultimately lead to cost savings for the company. We dont care about money anywhere.
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30 Sep 2018, 03:21
vad3tha wrote:
Manager: the new manufacturing process should save us time overall, even though the first step of the five-step process will take twice as long as it does under the old process. Under the new process, far fewer of the components will be found defective, and the sole purpose of steps two and three under the old process is to weed out defective components. As a result, we should be able to eliminate two of the five steps in the existing manufacturing process.
Which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the claim made in the argument?
A. Whether factory workers will requirement training in order to use the new manufacturing process
B. Whether the new process is likely to introduce deficiencies or imperfections that must be corrected
C. Whether defective components can be fixed or must be thrown out
D. Whether a third manufacturing process would save even more time than both the old and new manufacturing processes
E. Whether saving time with the new manufacturing process will ultimately lead to cost savings for the company.
That's an easy peasy Premise- New manufacturing removes the need of 2nd and 3rd step, which were used for removing defective items, in old process Conclusion- New manufacturing process saves time Missing Info/Assumption- New manufacturing process does not introduce any more defectives in the process
The only plausible question to evaluate this is "Whether the new process is likely to introduce deficiencies or imperfections that must be corrected" as this is a make or break question to the premise. Option B is the answer
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