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A large retailer operates a limited fleet of same-day-delivery trucks. For years, each neighborhood delivery hub has been assigned the same number of trucks, regardless of the daily order volume in that neighborhood. To shorten overall delivery times, senior management now plans to let neighborhood hubs trade truck assignments freely. Management argues that trading will move more trucks to the neighborhoods that rely on them most intensively, thereby reducing average delivery time across the company.
To evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?
A. Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
B. Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively could achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
C. Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
D. Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
E. Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
To evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?
A. Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
B. Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively could achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
C. Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
D. Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
E. Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
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A large retailer operates a limited fleet of same-day-delivery trucks. For years, each neighborhood delivery hub has been assigned the same number of trucks, regardless of the daily order volume in that neighborhood. To shorten overall delivery times, senior management now plans to let neighborhood hubs trade truck assignments freely. Management argues that trading will move more trucks to the neighborhoods that rely on them most intensively, thereby reducing average delivery time across the company.
To evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?
A. Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
B. Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively could achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
C. Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
D. Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
E. Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
(A) Irrelevant. Knowing tighter deadlines lead to frequent truck use does not demonstrate that adding more trucks shortens average delivery times.
(B) Correct. This option assesses if the assumed causal link, more trucks leading to shorter delivery times, is actually going to hold true, and thus evaluating the plan’s assumption.
(C) Irrelevant. This introduces a comparison with third-party carriers, which is unrelated to the proposed internal redistribution plan.
(D) Trap Answer. Presence of idle trucks indicates redistribution feasibility, but without establishing that shifting trucks actually reduces delivery times, this fact alone is insufficient to prove that the plan will work. Thus, this fact can help us to possibly predict if the plan will fail (in case the number of available trucks is zero), but at the same time, this information won't help us confirm that the plan is likely to succeed (in case the number of available trucks is more than zero), thus giving us only a partial answer.
(E) Irrelevant. Procedural record-keeping doesn't address whether truck redistribution affects delivery speed.
Answer: B
A large retailer operates a limited fleet of same-day-delivery trucks. For years, each neighborhood delivery hub has been assigned the same number of trucks, regardless of the daily order volume in that neighborhood. To shorten overall delivery times, senior management now plans to let neighborhood hubs trade truck assignments freely. Management argues that trading will move more trucks to the neighborhoods that rely on them most intensively, thereby reducing average delivery time across the company.
To evaluate whether the company’s plan is likely to achieve its intended result, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?
A. Whether neighborhood hubs facing tighter shipping deadlines currently use their trucks more frequently than other neighborhoods
B. Whether neighborhood hubs currently using trucks more intensively could achieve shorter delivery times due to having more trucks
C. Whether using the company’s own trucks reduces delivery time more effectively than outsourcing to third-party carriers
D. Whether certain neighborhood hubs currently have idle trucks at any point during the day
E. Whether neighborhood hubs will be required to record truck-trading activity in a central scheduling system
(A) Irrelevant. Knowing tighter deadlines lead to frequent truck use does not demonstrate that adding more trucks shortens average delivery times.
(B) Correct. This option assesses if the assumed causal link, more trucks leading to shorter delivery times, is actually going to hold true, and thus evaluating the plan’s assumption.
(C) Irrelevant. This introduces a comparison with third-party carriers, which is unrelated to the proposed internal redistribution plan.
(D) Trap Answer. Presence of idle trucks indicates redistribution feasibility, but without establishing that shifting trucks actually reduces delivery times, this fact alone is insufficient to prove that the plan will work. Thus, this fact can help us to possibly predict if the plan will fail (in case the number of available trucks is zero), but at the same time, this information won't help us confirm that the plan is likely to succeed (in case the number of available trucks is more than zero), thus giving us only a partial answer.
(E) Irrelevant. Procedural record-keeping doesn't address whether truck redistribution affects delivery speed.
Answer: B
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I chose answer E with this understanding that the efficiency was reducing because these extra work or recording the truck trading activity - leading to longer delivery time
