LSAT-23-2-13 (能解析一下经济背景吗)

lzh1974

13. A company with long-outstanding bills owed by its customers can assign those bills to  a collection agency that pays the company a fraction of their amount and then tries to collect payment from the customers. Since these agencies pay companies only 15 percent of the total abount of the outstanding bill, a company interested in reducing losses from long-outstanding bills would be well advised to pursue its debtors on its own.

The argument depends on the assumption that

A) A company that pursues its debtors on its own typically collects more than 15 percent of total amount of the long-outstanding bill that it is owned

B) The cost to a company of pursuing its debtors on its own for payment of long-outstanding bills does not exceed 15 percent of the total abount those bills

answer (A)

各位战友,解这道题需要经济背景吗?

cranberry

如果你明白它说的是什么，那么没有背景知识丝毫不影响你得到正确答案，如果你有这个知识，则可以直接得到答案

lzh1974

感谢了

Bensontuo

lzh1974 发表于 2004-8-19 15:58
13. A company with long-outstanding bills owed by its customers can assign those bills to &nbsp ...

There is a really obvious necessary assumptions could be predicted

1. Higher the amount the collections from the bills collected by bank than by agency.

If you chose B, then you are in the trap, since in order to make B correct, you must also assumed that the amount of the collection must be calculated by deducting the cost to collect it.

A. Perfect answer.