GWD-12-Q22

wanghenglin

我把sales revenue着重考虑sales了，所以觉得给别人做零件跟这个无关。。。。看来想的很错啊。为什么做零件要放在销售收入里！！！！！！

开心的柠檬

贴上RON的解释给各位：
i'm not sure whether there's a language barrier at work here, but the idiomatic expression "thanks to" means "because of".
also, "largely" means "almost entirely".

so, translated, we have
their sales revenue from Denoma models actually grew, almost entirely because of to some innovative and popular models that Denoma introduced.

now remember, PREMISES DON'T LIE.
so, even if choice (e) is true, these deep-discounted models accounted for only a small fraction of the retailers' sales revenue - because, as stated in the passage, the clear majority of that sales revenue came from the "innovative" new models.

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choice (c) is the favorite here.

REMEMBER WHAT YOU SHOULD DO ON PROBLEMS LIKE THESE:
FIRST, MAKE EXPLICIT EXACTLY WHAT THE "SURPRISING RESULT" IS.
in this case, the "surprising result" is the fact that, SIMULTANEOUSLY, denoma's sales revenues decreased while the retailers' sales from denoma increased (largely because of NEW models).

choice (c) provides a good rationalization: the other part of denoma's revenue (the part from making parts for other companies) decreased. this would not have affected the retailers' revenue from denoma products, because the retailers don't sell the parts.

艮艮

sunlight841206 发表于 2013-5-22 22:05
选择C，思路如下：

原题： Denoma, a major consumer-electronics maker, had a sizeable decline in sale ...

thx very much！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！

我要考HEC-Paris

整个题很典型,不是说难度,而是GMAT的考题形式,文字游戏太多了,这个题的核心是在,D这个公司,和retailer不是一家. D公司亏了, retailer却赚钱了.为什么?因为retailer只负责卖,没有其他成本,D这个公司还要承担其他方面的cost,这个是很明显的逻辑,然后C就解释了D为什么没赚钱....难点是在于文字游戏,这个习惯在考场上很致命, 所以养成仔细的习惯是上700的必要条件.

lawrence0902

electronics retailers report that although their overall sales were considerably lower than in the previous year 意味着别的电子产品都不好卖，所以同时作为供应商的Denoma，在别的电子用品公司那边捞不着revenue，意味着即使他们的新品卖的很好，也没法弥补作为供应商这块的revenue。
形象点说如果本来的收入是100，自己的产品收入占10，作为供应商的收入为90。而现在自己产品收入是50，但是作为供应商的收入下降到10的话，那总收入只有60了，总收入大大下降了。