Inference Set: Questions
1) Over past three years two divisions of a company have performed very well: in each of those years, the sales division has resulted in roughly 10 percent of dollar sales and 20 percent of profits, and the marketing division has realized the balance.
Which option can properly be inferred regarding the past three years of performance?
(A) Total dollar sales for both the divisions have remained roughly constant.
(B) The sales division has suffered more competition than has the marketing division.
(C) The marketing division has realized lower profits per dollar of sales compared to sales division. (Answer)
(D) The product mix offered by both the divisions has remained unchanged.
Answer C: The question clearly indicates
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(C) If there is technological advancements that have promising ability to extract sulfur from geothermal springs.
(D) The total amount of sulfur in geothermal springs is significantly greater than the total amount of sulfur on land.
Answer A: The question talks about cost as the driving force for extraction from ground sources i.e. mines (ores). However, it can only be continued if there are enough resources or ores available on ground. In case there are no more ground sources available the mining will have to go for geothermal resources. Therefore, option A is best support or in other words is compelling for the mining to happen on ground or from geothermal resources.
4) Urban air contains more carbon dioxide then rural air, and vegetation in cities is slow to growth compared to rural area. To evaluate the impact of carbon dioxide, two teams grew plants in urban and rural area in control environment of greenhouse and eliminated carbon dioxide. Vegetation in urban area grew lower compared to that in rural area.
Which of the following, if true, would it be most important to take into account in evaluating the