This question is bogus. Makes no sense. Is this an official question? Highly doubt it.
The "correct answer" is suggested to be A. However, here are the problems with A, and with every other choice...
Passage:
Macro system’s new range of decongestors costs so little to market that one has doubts about the company’s ability to push the product against other giants.’ more expensive though quality products. Macro system has earned a reputation for fair pricing of its products by allowing a nominal mark-up it builds in the pricing. Yet prospective clients will find it difficult to believe that a quality product could be available for such a low price. But Macro system is confident of making a big dent in the decongestor market
The statements above, if true, most strongly support which of the following?
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A. The company may suffer due to this pricing adventure causing the company to lose at least of some of its reputation
This sentence is written by someone who doesn't understand how the English language works. "at least of some of..." is wrong. That is what made me doubt it's an official question. Now, considering that's a typo, and coming to the actual logic of the question...
pricing adventure: this is not an adventure of the company. As mentioned in the passage, the company is known to maintain competitive (fair, with nominal markup) pricing.
lose at least some of its reputation: what is the reputation of the company? acc to the passage, "Macro system has earned a reputation for fair pricing". it doesn't mention the company has a reputation for great products. maybe their products are horrible. there is no reason to assume that, but there's not reason to assume the products are good either. the only reputation we know about is that they price fair. in this instance too, they are pricing fair. so how can they lose any reputation? A is clearly wrong.
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B. Macro System’s large volume is the trick behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit
out of scope. the passage mentions nothing that will support this idea. maybe their trick to success (i.e. maintaining low prices) is that they smuggle their raw materials or they underpay their workers.
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C. Macro System’s pricing computation software underwent a glitch, which the accountants could not detect
If the passage is true, is this statement most likely true? There is NOTHING in the passage to suggest that. So, eliminate. This is what an irrelevant answer choice looks like. (Side note: A lot of folks claim a lot of answer choices to be irrelevant when they aren't)
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D. Macro System’s decongestors can perform no better than other such similar gadgets
FWIW, I picked this as my answer, knowing full well that this isn't a good choice. I just picked the least bad choice. So here was my reasoning behind it. Let's say this wasn't true, i.e. MS's decongestors were actually better than other similar gadgets. In that case, they would have data to show that (Yes, I KNOW it is a big leap and there's nothing in the passage that points to it. It's just likely if you have a product better than your competitors, you want to show the world HOW.). Or at least, there would be some test users to vouch for that. That would take people's eyes off the pricing (or at least that won't be the most talked about thing). People would actually consider the functioning of the product before dismissing it as "too good to be true" based on prices alone. None of this happens, so likely their product isn't better. Again, as mentioned before, THIS IS A BAD PICK. It's just the least BAD of the lot. This question sucks.
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E. Macro System will never compromise on the quality of its products for the sake of making more profits
Nothing in the passage suggests this.