Câu 158: GMAT Section 3 Verbal Ability: Section Three Verbal Ability

Harpers Pencils manufactures and sells the same pencils as Johnsons Supply. Employee wages account for forty percent of the cost of manufacturing pencils at both factories. Harpers is seeking a competitive edge over Johnsons supply. Therefore, to promote this end, Harpers should lower employee wages. Which of the following, if true, seriously weakens the argument above?

1. A. Because they make a small number of specialty artist’s pencils, pencil manufacturers cannot receive volume discounts on raw materials.
2. B. Lowering wages would reduce the quality of employee work and this reduced quality would lead to lowered sales. — đáp án hiện tại
3. C. Harper’s Pencils has taken away twenty percent of Johnson’s Supply business over the last year.
4. D. Johnson’s Supply pays its employees, on average, ten percent more than does Harper’s Pencils.
5. E. Many people who work for manufacturing plants live in areas in which the manufacturing plant they work for is the only industry.