【GMAT考满分阅读RC题库】Companies that must determine well in advance of t_真题_答案

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Companies that must determine well in advance of the selling season how many unites of a new product to manu-facture often underproduce products that sell well and have overstocks of others. The increased incidence in recent years of mismatches between production and demand seems ironic, since point-of-sale scanners have improved data on consumers' buying patterns and since flexible manufacturing has enabled companies to produce, cost-effectively, small quantities of goods. This type of manufacturing has greatly increased the number of new products introduced annually in the United States. However, frequent introductions of new products have two problematic side effects. For one, they reduce the average lifetime of products; more of them are neither at the beginning of their life (when prediction s difficult) or at the end of their life (when keeping inventory is expen- sive because the products will soon become obsolete). For another, as new products proliferate, demand is divided among a growing number of stock-keeping units (SKU's). Even though manufacturers and retailers can forecast aggregate demand with some certainty, forecasting accurately how that demand will be distributed among the many SKU's they sell is difficult. For example, a company may be able to estimate accurately the aggregate number of shoes it will sell, but it may be uncertain about which specific types of shoes will sell more than other types.

Which of the following most accurately describes the function of the last sentence in the passage (highlight)?

ATo cite a situation in which the aggregate demand is more important than the distribution of demand among SKU's
BTo refute an assertion about the side effects of flexible manufacturing
CTo illustrate an assertion about companies' ability to forecast demand
DTo provide an example of ways in which companies address the difficulties of forecasting demand
ETo note an exception to the author's assertion about distributing demand among SKU's

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OG16
OG17
PREP08 Test 1
PREP08 Test 2
Manhattan
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OG18-数学分册
OG18-语文分册
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OG19-语文分册
OG19-数学分册
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OG20-数学分册

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