Factory manager: One reason the automobile parts this factory

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Factory manager : One reason the automobile parts this factory produces are expensive is that our manufacturing equipment is outdated and inefficient. Our products would be more competitively priced if we were to refurbish the factory completely with new, more efficient equipment. Therefore, since to survive in today’s market we have to make our products more competitively priced, we must completely refurbish the factory in order to survive.

The reasoning in the factory manager’s argument is flawed because this argument:

(A) fails to recognize that the price of a particular commodity can change over time
(B) shifts without justification from treating something as one way of achieving a goal to treating it as the only way of achieving that goal
(C) argues that one thing is the cause of another when the evidence given indicates that the second thing may in fact be the cause of the first
(D) recommends a solution to a problem without first considering any possible causes of that problem
(E) fails to make a definite recommendation and instead merely suggests that some possible course of action might be effective

Suvankar8250 · Answer

(A): There is no indication that the manager failed to recognize this fact; changing
commodity prices are not relevant to the manager’s flawed reasoning.

(B): This is the  correct answer choice . The factory manager suggests only one
single solution to the factory’s problems (completely refurbishing the factory), and then leaps to the
assertion that this solution must be implemented.

(C): The answer choice states that there is cause-effect flaw, i.e, the expensive automobile parts produced is the reason behind the equipment being outdated and inefficient, which does not make sense as per the current piece of text.

(D): The problem with the stimulus is not that the manager fails to consider any
possible causes. He instead had considered only one cause to be the root of all problems.

(E): This answer choice is incorrect, because the factory manager does not fail to
make a definite recommendation, and instead suggested only one possible course of action.

joohwangie · Answer

in my opinion B,
there are many other possibility to lower the prices of the FG but the manager assume there is only one

RICHA1189 · Answer

IMO B

B) shifts without justification from treating something as one way of achieving a goal to treating it as the only way of achieving that goal

1st line of the passage states .. one of the reason , not the only reason

unraveled · Answer

Factory manager : One reason the automobile parts this factory produces are expensive is that our manufacturing equipment is outdated and inefficient. Our products would be more competitively priced if we were to refurbish the factory completely with new, more efficient equipment. Therefore, since to survive in today’s market we have to make our products more competitively priced, we  must  completely refurbish the factory in order to survive.

The reasoning in the factory manager’s argument is flawed because this argument:

(A) fails to recognize that the  price of a particular commodity can change over time  - WRONG. Change can be on higher side or on lower side. 
(B) shifts without justification from treating something as one way of achieving a goal to  treating it as the only way of achieving that goal  - CORRECT. The word "must" is a big jump, suggesting that factory improvement is the only way to be competitive. 
(C) argues that one thing is the cause of another when the evidence given indicates that the  second thing may in fact be the cause of the first  - WRONG. Not at all within the realms of this passage. Irrelevant.
(D) recommends a solution to a problem  without first considering any possible causes  of that problem - WRONG. "Without" would be wrong to claim as cause is identified. 
(E)  fails to make a definite recommendation  and instead merely suggests that some possible course of action might be effective - WRONG. It is a definite recommendation by the FM.

Answer B.

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