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Q7 - Baxe Interiors, one of the largest

by ManhattanPrepLSAT1 Fri Dec 31, 1999 8:00 pm

Question Type:
Most Supported

Stimulus Breakdown:
The statements convey the following four points:
1. Baxe interiors has a near monopoly in the corporate market.
2. Several small design companies have design awards, while Baxe has none.
3. Corporate managers will solicit design proposals only from companies they believe will not go bankrupt.
4. Corporate managers believe that only very large companies are unlikely to go bankrupt.

Answer Anticipation:
It's very difficult to anticipate an answer to this question.

Correct Answer:
(E)

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) is unsupported. How are we to know how the designs of large design companies stack up against those of Baxe, nor can we really say that other large design companies exist.

(B) is out of scope. We know nothing of how Baxe competes in markets other than that for commercial space.

(C) is too strong. We know that there are some stronger design producers, but we cannot generalize to what is true of smaller design companies generally.

(D) is out of scope. We don't know whether those company managers are aware of better designs.

(E) is correct. This is supported from a combination of all four statements. The second point is not enough to combat the inference one can make from the third and fourth points, which suggests that the first point will likely continue.

Takeaway/Pattern: Reasoning: Comparison, Conditional Logic

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