Macro system’s new range of decongestors costs so little to market tha

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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?

A. The company may suffer due to this pricing adventure causing the company to lose at least of some of its reputation

B. Macro System’s large volume is the trick behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit

C. Macro System’s pricing computation software underwent a glitch, which the accountants could not detect

D. Macro System’s decongestors can perform no better than other such similar gadgets

E. Macro System will never compromise on the quality of its products for the sake of making more profits

Kurtosis · Answer

Price of Macro system's decongestors - Cheaper than other manufacturers
Other manufacturers decongestors are quality products and expensive.
Clients will find it difficult to believe that a quality product could be available for such a low price.

A. The company may suffer due to this pricing adventure causing the company to lose at least of some of its reputation - Correct - Clients may think that the product's quality is low due to cheap pricing and may stop buying the decongestors.

B. Macro System’s large volume is the trick behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit - Incorrect - Out of scope

C. Macro System’s pricing computation software underwent a glitch, which the accountants could not detect - Incorrect - Out of scope

D. Macro System’s decongestors can perform no better than other such similar gadgets - Incorrect - We can not infer this as the performance of the decongestors is not stated in the argument.

E. Macro System will never compromise on the quality of its products for the sake of making more profits - Incorrect - Out of scope

In my opinion, answer is A

b9n920 · Answer

I think it is B.

" But Macro system is confident of making a big dent in the decongestor market ." and (I asked myself, "How they r so confident?")
" Macro System’s large volume is the  trick  behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit ." - logically follow each other and this is supported by " Macro system has earned a reputation for fair pricing of its products by allowing a nominal mark-up it builds in the pricing. "

A may be true, but it is not a must, I think.

Thanks.

ShivaniAgrawal · Answer

I think the answer should be B because the argument says that the company is sure to make a big dent. On the other hand A is not certain to be true. It states just the assumption of people.

Abhishek009 · Answer

IMHO

Thus, option (A) seems plausible.

Leo8 · Answer

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 key to me here is the blue highlighted part, the argument has said it in certainty that some clients will find it difficult to believe so we need to capitalise this info.

Remove the answer choices which tries to explain the situation that we are not told to do so , its not an evaluate the argument type.

We have been asked to find a choice which supports the above given claim?

A. The company may suffer due to this pricing adventure causing the company to lose at least of some of its reputation :  Yup - This goes with some clients mentioned in the highlighted part

B. Macro System’s large volume is the trick behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit :  No were the manufacturing volume was mentioned: Unnecessary outside info

C. Macro System’s pricing computation software underwent a glitch, which the accountants could not detect -  we are not evaluating the situation here

D. Macro System’s decongestors can perform no better than other such similar gadgets :  No where performance is compared

E. Macro System will never compromise on the quality of its products for the sake of making more profits -  Are we trying to endorse Macro system? Its not our interest

rulingbear · Answer

This sort of question, while helpful, is one of the reasons to focus on GMAT prep/OG for practice. The prompt lacks clarity. A is definitely true if the clients are right and B would be true if the Macro system is right. The question itself is not hard, for the discerning candidate anyway. Therefore, those who have chosen B should take heart, however, A states the obvious which is clearly correct.

rulingbear · Answer

Hey Abhishek,

While A is a correct option, I disagree that dent=diminish in this context. The dent described here pointed to the fact that Macro would compete and gain customers in the market, this is supported by the word "but" after the clients' concern and before the company's assertion.

Best,

jaston · Answer

I don't really get why "A" would be the correct answer here. "B" is more plausible.

Considering A and B: 
A. The company may suffer due to this pricing adventure causing the company to lose at least of some of its reputation - What is the basis for loss of reputation?

B. Macro System???s large volume is the trick behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit. - Explains how Macro system is confident of making a big dent in the decongestor market in spite of their remarkably low prices

sananoor · Answer

the question is that one has to choose that option that is supported by he info given in argument and i don't get that why people preferring B when there is nothing about large volume? when an option depends on the info given in the argument then anything apart from given info is wrong...For this reason B, C and D are out and E is too extreme to be an answer. So it should be A

sandeepb17 · Answer

The reason why most of the people are getting wrong is that they are not reading the question stem properly. I too made this silly error first time. I vaguely looked at the question stem and assumed that this is a strengthen question. But, actually its a conclusion question. Wordings of the question stem are such that you will infer them differently than intended, moreover, you will not get confused. If you infer a question stem differently and also not get confused, then you will definitely get any CR question wrong. Don't take question stem for granted.

B. Macro System’s large volume is the trick behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit 
Where it is written that Macro system is successful or will get successful.

C. Macro System’s pricing computation software underwent a glitch, which the accountants could not detect 
Definitely out of the scope.

D. Macro System’s decongestors can perform no better than other such similar gadgets.
Is there any research or data that shows that Macro System’s decongestors can perform better. Macro System’s decongestors may fail miserable also. God knows.

E. Macro System will never compromise on the quality of its products for the sake of making more profits.
No mention of ethics or code of conduct practiced in Macro System. May compromise later once they taste the money of profit.

hence only remaining option is A.

naturalimproviser · Answer

A. The company may suffer due to this pricing adventure causing the company to lose at least of some of its reputation.   Correct choice - Can be logically deduced as the argument says that Macro system is reputed for its fair pricing, and that 'Yet prospective clients will find it difficult to believe that a quality product could be available for such a low price'

B. Macro System’s large volume is the trick behind its success, though it may charge a small profit on the unit. -  theargument says that Macro system has earned a reputation for fair pricing its products but there is no mention of the sales volume anywhere.

C. Macro System’s pricing computation software underwent a glitch, which the accountants could not detect -  Completely irrelevant

D. Macro System’s decongestors can perform no better than other such similar gadgets -  A close one, but can not be relied upon, we do not have any information about Macro system's products being superior or inferior to its competitors'

E. Macro System will never compromise on the quality of its products for the sake of making more profits -  Again, no information about the quality of Macro system's products

Saupayan · Answer

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?

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.

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.

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)

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.

Nothing in the passage suggests this.

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