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Super Express Shipping Company has implemented a new distribution system that can get almost every package to its destination the day after it is sent. The company worries that this more efficient system will result in lower sales of its premium next-day delivery service, because its two-day service will usually arrive the following day anyway. The company plans to encourage sales of its next-day service by intentionally delaying delivery of its two-day packages so that they will not be delivered the following day, even if the package arrives at its destination city in time for next-day delivery.
The company's plan assumes that
(A) deliberate delay of packages will not affect the company's image in a way that significantly reduces its ability to attract and retain customers
(B) most people do not have a preference for either two-day or next-day delivery
(C) if the plan is not implemented, the company would lose more money in lost sales of overnight deliveries than it would save with its new efficient distribution system
(D) the overnight service is too expensive to be attractive to most customers currently
(E) competing companies' delivery services rarely deliver packages to their destination earlier than their promised time
The company's plan assumes that
(A) deliberate delay of packages will not affect the company's image in a way that significantly reduces its ability to attract and retain customers
(B) most people do not have a preference for either two-day or next-day delivery
(C) if the plan is not implemented, the company would lose more money in lost sales of overnight deliveries than it would save with its new efficient distribution system
(D) the overnight service is too expensive to be attractive to most customers currently
(E) competing companies' delivery services rarely deliver packages to their destination earlier than their promised time
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28 Apr 2019, 02:08
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Hey m1033512,
(C) is not an assumption of the plan, it is a reason for making the plan. In particular, note that the question is 'the plan assumes that...' while (C) states 'if there is no plan, then...'. But we don't care about what happens if there is no plan, we care about what is required for the plan to work.
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My two cents' worth here:
These questions usually fall under what would be called "They have a plan" questions, and the questions always almost follow the same pattern.
Someone will propose a certain course of action (here as " intentionally delaying delivery of its two-day packages") and outlines a pretty specific aim of that course of action (here "encourage sales of its next-day service"). The right answer will almost always be directly related to the specific aim of the plan, which tells us that's the part of the question we should zoom in on.
Here, we're looking for an assumption - which can appear in the form of a linking connector, or a defending statement that indeed tells us that the customers will buy his premium 1-day service.
The author's line of reasoning is to drive 'traffic' or sales to the premium 1-day overnight delivery plan by holding things up on their 'normal' 2-day delivery plans, EVEN THOUGH internally they have developed the same synergistic capability (their distribution system) to deliver either within 1 or 2 days. Try to personalize this argument as if you were the owner of the business:
1. I'm going to hold things up for my customers on the 2-day deliveries, even though I can almost always definitely deliver within 2 days.
2. Since 2-day deliveries are on hold up, customers will turn to my 1-day delivery service.
Missing connect: What if the customers are not happy already in the first place that their goods are being held up? What if they switch at that point? Then my 2-day deliveries would NEVER have the chance to even work.
This whole argument about driving traffic from 1 plan to the other assumes that the customers will behave as he predicts them to be. But he's missing the point in that there is a potential possibility they would not even give him the opportunity to sell his 1-day premium delivery service.
Hence, we have Option A which appears in the form of a defending assumption which tells us that the above stated possibility will not happen.
These questions usually fall under what would be called "They have a plan" questions, and the questions always almost follow the same pattern.
Someone will propose a certain course of action (here as " intentionally delaying delivery of its two-day packages") and outlines a pretty specific aim of that course of action (here "encourage sales of its next-day service"). The right answer will almost always be directly related to the specific aim of the plan, which tells us that's the part of the question we should zoom in on.
Here, we're looking for an assumption - which can appear in the form of a linking connector, or a defending statement that indeed tells us that the customers will buy his premium 1-day service.
The author's line of reasoning is to drive 'traffic' or sales to the premium 1-day overnight delivery plan by holding things up on their 'normal' 2-day delivery plans, EVEN THOUGH internally they have developed the same synergistic capability (their distribution system) to deliver either within 1 or 2 days. Try to personalize this argument as if you were the owner of the business:
1. I'm going to hold things up for my customers on the 2-day deliveries, even though I can almost always definitely deliver within 2 days.
2. Since 2-day deliveries are on hold up, customers will turn to my 1-day delivery service.
Missing connect: What if the customers are not happy already in the first place that their goods are being held up? What if they switch at that point? Then my 2-day deliveries would NEVER have the chance to even work.
This whole argument about driving traffic from 1 plan to the other assumes that the customers will behave as he predicts them to be. But he's missing the point in that there is a potential possibility they would not even give him the opportunity to sell his 1-day premium delivery service.
Hence, we have Option A which appears in the form of a defending assumption which tells us that the above stated possibility will not happen.
