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作者: lishb07 时间: 2011-8-2 11:27
标题: 百思不得其解的一题请教大家
A discount retailer of basic household necessities employs thousands of people and pays most of them at the minimum wage rate. Yet following a federally mandated increase of the minimum wage rate that increased the retailer's operating costs considerably, the retailer's profits increased markedly.
Which of the following, if true , most helps to resolve the apparent paradox?

(A) Over half of the retailer's operating costs consist of payroll expenditures; yet only a small percentage of those expenditures go to pay management salaries.

(B) The retailer's customer base is made up primarily of people who earn, or who depend on the earnings of others who earn, the minimum wage. B

(C[The retailer's operating costs, other than wages, increased substantially after the increase in the minimum wage rate went into effect.

(D)[When the increase in the minimum wage rate wen tinto effect, the retailer also raised the wage rate for employees who had been earning just above minimum wage.

(E)The majority of the retailer's employees work as cashiers, and most cashiers are paid the minimum wage.

正确答案是B 但是B是什么意思都不懂，请教大家解题思路拜谢

作者: dawnssing 时间: 2011-8-2 11:46
这个题目是og上的吧~~类型应该是make an assumption
background : employs thousands of people and pays most of them at the minimum wage rate。
paradox在于increasing minimum wage rate ：一方面increased the retailer's operating costs considerably，一方面又使得the retailer's profits increased markedly

(B) The retailer's customer base is made up primarily of people who earn, or who depend on the earnings of others who earn, the minimum wage. 说明客户群主要由最低工资的一部分人组成。
而premise中提到了该公司增加了这一部分人的收入。那么就会导致这一部分人有了更充足的购买力。
所以1.增加工资增加了营运成本，但是2。更多新兴的购买力足以为公司带来更多的利润。

作者: lishb07 时间: 2011-8-2 14:05

这个题目是og上的吧~~类型应该是make an assumption
background : employs thousands of people and pays most of them at the minimum wage rate。
paradox在于increasing minimum wage rate ：一方面increased the retailer's operating costs considerably，一方面又使得the retailer's profits increased markedly

(B) The retailer's customer base is made up primarily of people who earn, or who depend on the earnings of others who earn, the minimum wage. 说明客户群主要由最低工资的一部分人组成。
而premise中提到了该公司增加了这一部分人的收入。那么就会导致这一部分人有了更充足的购买力。
所以1.增加工资增加了营运成本，但是2。更多新兴的购买力足以为公司带来更多的利润。

-- by 会员 dawnssing (2011/8/2 11:46:45)

谢谢楼上主要是自己的思维先入为主了

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