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10.   This year the New Hampshire Division of Company X set a new record for annual sales by that division. This record is especially surprising since the New Hampshire Division has the smallest potential market and the lowest sales of any of Company X’s divisions.

Which of the following identifies a flaw in the logical coherence of the statement above?

(A) If overall sales for Company X were sharply reduced, the New Hampshire Division’s new sales record is irrelevant to the company’s prosperity.

(B) Since the division is competing against its own record, the comparison of its sales record with that of other divisions is irrelevant.

(C) If this is the first year that the New Hampshire Division has been last in sales among Company X’s divisions, the new record is not surprising at all.

(D) If overall sales for Company X were greater than usual, it is not surprising that the New Hampshire Division was last in sales.（B）

(E) Since the New Hampshire Division has the smallest potential market, it is not surprising that it had the lowest sales.

选b没有疑问，但有点不清楚e为什么错了，很模糊地把它排除了。是不是这个答案与题干的重心不对呀。

请nn指教

谢谢，一语惊醒，想起了feifei讲课时的a1，a2推b的过程中。不在a1和a2发生关系

it's a natural human logic, you don't have to memorize all those rules, follow your own sense, it's enough

may be i have someting wrong with this kind of type, since i always wrong in this type,i must keep it in mind through some rules.

题目是问flaw in the logical coherence,亦即要找出surprising与since后面内容的逻辑不一致性。

只有B道出了这个东东，说明了这个surprising是不合逻辑的，因为this Hampshire Division 只是在和它以前的销售数据作比较，与它的销量是不是最小，销售区域是不是最小都没有直接的逻辑关系.