本贴相关题目 GMATPrep-2007E2-CR-7 (DCXH)

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United Lumber will use trees from its forests for two products. The tree trunks will be used for lumber and the branches converted into wood chips to make fiberboard. The cost of this conversion would be the same whether done at the logging site, where the trees are debranched, or at United's factory. However, wood chips occupy less than half the volume of the branches from which they are made.

The information given, if accurate, most strongly supports which of the following?

AConverting the branches into wood chips at the logging site would require transporting a fully assembled wood-chipping machine to and from the site.
BIt would be more economical to debranch the trees at the factory where the fiberboard is manufactured.
CThe debranching of trees and the conversion of the branches into chips are the only stages in the processing of branches that it would be in United's economic advantage to perform at the logging site.
DTransportation costs from the logging site to the factory that are determined by volume of cargo would be lower if the conversion into chips is done at the logging site rather than at the factory.
EIn the wood-processing industry, branches are used only for the production of wood chips for fiberboard.

正确答案: D

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把branches加工成chips之后，体积只是原来的一半不到(原文："wood chips occupy less than half the volume of the branches from which they are made")，因为体积与运费成正比(选项：Transportation costs…that are determined by volume of cargo…)，所以如前所述，体积减少了，运费也就相应降低了，并不是无关选项