Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The governments design for the new cross-state bridge

This is a really good example of why it's best to study from official problems. AsKonstantin1983 points out above, this problem is copied from a question about tires. The key detail that the rewriter failed to notice is that the new tires involved a "special design" specific to that model. The mention of a "special reflective coating," without the mention of a product-specific design, makes it less clear that the vendor is incurring an up-front design cost that will not appear again as a cost when it comes time for reorders. As written, the problem may seem to require an assumption about these up-front costs, but that is clearly the intent behind the original question: the company breaks even on the initial supply and earns a profit on reorders.

As for B, it doesn't give us any indication that the other contracts are a result of winning this particular bid. Those other contracts may be lucrative (or not), but they don't explain why winning THIS particular contract
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Statistics : Posted by DmitryFarber • on 08 May 2014, 05:11 • Replies 11 • Views 5351

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