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Sales of telephones have increased dramatically over the last year. In order to take advantage of this increase, Mammoth Industries plans to expand production of its own model of telephone, while continuing its already very extensive advertising of this product.

Which of the following, if true, provides most support for the view that Mammoth Industries cannot increase its sales of telephones by adopting the plan outlined above?

(A) Although it sells all of the telephones that it produces, Mammoth Industries' share of all telephone sales has declined over the last year.

(B) Mammoth Industries' average inventory of telephones awaiting shipment to retailers has declined slightly over the last year.

(C) Advertising has made the brand name of Mammoth Industries' telephones widely known, but few consumers know that Mammoth Industries owns this brand.

(D) Mammoth Industries' telephone is one of three brands of telephone that have together accounted for the bulk of the last year's increase in sales.

(E) Despite a slight decline in the retail price, sales of Mammoth Industries' telephones have fallen in the last year.

这个题目，选项中应该兼顾expand production & continue advertisement, 但是觉得E只是continue ad. 了（sales下降，price基本不变，所以数量卖出的下降，所以需要ad），并没有说expand productoin的问题。

不过，其余四个选项中，也都没有同时顾到这两个问题。

另外，当时我选的A，因为他是需要expand production的。

请牛牛们指点

不明白楼主为何要“兼顾expand production & continue advertisement”？

其实，GMAT中有很多信息并没有太大用途，或根本就是在误导你。

本题意思很明确：

因为——整个市场的电话销售旺盛

所以——M公司要扩大电话生产规模（并继续作大规模广告）

题目问的是：为何M公司不能扩大生产规模。

E选项说了：即使降低价格，M的电话销售业绩也下滑了。这说明即使市场销售旺盛，M的业绩也不好。因此，扩大生产是没有根据的。

A选项是说M的市场份额下降，并不代表销售下降，不能有力证明M不能扩大生产。