Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Advertisement: The worlds best coffee beans come from Colombia. The

Understanding the argument - This is a case of misleading statistics - KC buys most of Columbia coffee, so it's the best.

Suppose the overall production of Columbia coffee beans is 10 units. And Kreemo Coffee (KC) buys 7 units out of 10.
But let's assume KC's overall production is 2000 units. And it needs to buy 1993 units of coffee other than Columbia coffee.
There are other smaller players who buy the remaining 3 units of Columbia coffee, and they only sell those many units - 100% Coulumbia coffee beans.
As we can see, there is a good possibility that KC's blend has a lower %age of Columbia coffee than the other smaller players.

(A) the equipment used by Kreemo to blend and package its coffee is no different from that used by most other coffee producers - The equipment used by Kreemo and others doesn't matter here. Out of scope.

(B) not all of Kreemo’s competitors use Colombian coffee beans in the blends of coffee they sell - This strengthens the reasoning. Opposite of what
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 08 Apr 2009, 00:34 • Replies 15 • Views 33296

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