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CR · Critical Reasoning
655-705
Resolve a Paradox
A local bakery produces a variety of pastries and the ingredients they require. The sales of their pastries have risen. However, the monthly income from these sales has not increased, as competition has compelled the bakery to lower the prices of its pastries. Unfortunately, the bakery has not been able to reduce the cost of producing a pastry. Therefore, despite the rise in pastry sales, the bakery must be contributing less to its overall profits than before.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this argument?
Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this argument?
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A significant number of customers frequently purchase additional ingredients for their pastries, and the bakery only uses its own sourced ingredients.
B
Unlike some rival bakeries, this bakery sells all of its pastries through local markets, and these markets' fees take up a large portion of the pastries' final selling price.
C
Some pastry makers have had to lower the prices of their pastries even more than this bakery has.
D
In the last year, no other local bakery has experienced as large an increase in pastry sales as this bakery has.
E
In the past year, sales of this bakery's pastries have outpaced sales of any other type of product they offer.
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SuhaniJan 4, 2025
Thank you very much!
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