Production manager: The building materials that we produce meet indust

Production manager: The building materials that we produce meet industry safety codes but pose some safety risk. Since we have recently developed the technology to make a safer version of our product, we should stop producing our current product and sell only the safer version in order to protect public safety.
Sales manager: If we stop selling our current product, we will have no money to develop and promote the safe product. We need to continue to sell the less-safe product in order to be in a position to market the safer product successfully.

The sales manager counters the production manager’s argument by


(A) pointing out that one part of the production manager’s proposal would have consequences that would prevent successful execution of another part

(B) challenging the production manager’s authority to dictate company policy

(C) questioning the product manager’s assumption that a product is necessarily safe just because it is safer than another product

(D) proposing a change in the standards by which product safety is judged

(E) presenting evidence to show that the production manager has overestimated the potential impact of the new technology