eybrj2 wrote:
The excessive number of safety regulations that the federal government has placed on industry poses more serious hardships for big businesses than for small ones. Since large companies do everything on a more massive scale, they must alter more complex operations and spend much more money to meet governmental requirements.
New safety regulations problem for large companies
To shift to the Federal regulations ,
bigger firms have to spend more , since their scale of operations is larger than smaller ones.
We need to attack the blue highlighted part to weaken the argument.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above? a) small companies are less likely than large companies to have the capital reserves for improvement. - Can weaken the argument.
b) the operation of small companies frequently rely on the same technologies as the operations of large companies. - Operations is not the criteria for attacking the Conclusion .
c) safety regulation codes are
uniform established without reference to size of company - It's true that safety regulations are same , a stated in the passage , we understand that both smaller as well as bigger firms have to alter the operation process , but it is not weakening the stated argument anyway.
d) large companies typically have more of their profits invested in other businesses than do small companies. - This is a strengthener , if large companies have more accumulated funds it won't be a problem for them to change as per federal regulations.
e) large companies are in general more likely than small companies to diversify their markets and products - Out of scope , we aren't interested about diversification.