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For many, many years the Briemen pharmaceutical company has been putting cotton packing in the tops of bottles containing its brand of aspirin tablets. The cotton has served to prevent the tablets from disintegrating during shipping. Soon, all Briemen aspirin tablets have a micro-coating that would keep the tablets intact even if they were not packed with cotton. Nevertheless, Briemen's management has decided to retain the cotton, despite its not inconsiderable cost. Which of the following, if true, could best serve as a reason for making the decision that Briemen's management made? (A) Briemen is a brand name that is widely trusted by consumers, and the familiar appearance of traditional Briemen products is part of what sustains that trust. (B) When Briemen introduced the cotton packing, it had no reason for doing so other than the need to prevent the tablets from disintegrating in the bottles. (C) If the cotton packing were eliminated from Briemen's aspirin bottles, Briemen could slightly reduce the size of the bottles for the various standard quantities of tablets. (D) Briemen is the last major pharmaceutical company to introduce microcoating of its aspirin tablets. (E) For some years now, Briemen's aspirin has been losing market share to chemically equivalent but cheaper generic makes of aspirin.
Brant Lumber employs numerous workers to saw logs into boards. Brant is considering refitting its sawmill with computerized log-cutting machines that would saw the logs automatically and that would increase the number of logs the sawmill could process per day. The refit would allow Brant to reduce its workforce, but it would not increase the sawmill’s output, since the sawmill already processes as many logs per day as Brant's timber sources can supply. Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the analysis of the effects of the refit on the sawmill’s output? (A) The computerized log-cutting machines cost far more to purchase than the machines currently installed in the sawmill did when they were new. (B) Replacing some of the workers at the sawmill with computerized log-cutting machines would enable Brant to increase profits, even though those machines would not be used to capacity. (C) By relocating the sawmill instead of refitting it, Brant would be able to increase the supply of lops available for the sawmill to process into boards. (D) Less of a log is wasted when it is cut into boards by computerized log-cutting machines than when it is cut into boards by workers using the sawmill’s current equipment. (E) The computerized log-cutting machines can be adjusted far more quickly to cut boards of different dimensions than can the sawmill’s current equipment.
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