Day Sales Outstanding (DSO) is a measure of how many days a company is left waiting on payment for services rendered. The construction industry faces especially high rates of late payment, with an average DSO of about 80 days. Such late payments make it extremely difficult for construction companies to manage their cash flow.

Which of the following plans, if feasible, would best allow a company to address the problem of late payments?

One method of predicting the future value of a particular company's stock is to attempt to correlate the pattern of its recent performance with the past performance of other companies, even companies in different industries, whose subsequent stock performance is known. This technique, known as "technical analysis," provides a readily available basis for predicting the future value of a company's stock without special knowledge of that company or its industry.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion that technical analysis, as described above, accurately predicts stock performance?

Unlike most art exhibitions, which require the viewer to appreciate the works in their current form, the Perpetual Motion Project invites guests to manipulate each work, which thereby changes the way it will be perceived by the next viewer.

A distinguished writer, Stefan Zweig’s memoirs documented his odyssey across cultures as diverse as the lands in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.

The multiple chambers of a cow’s stomach exist to process nutrition from high-fiber plant matter. This process is only necessary because this plant matter is difficult to digest. Therefore, paleontologists’ discovery that the three-toed dinosaur Rumindolus possessed similar multi-chambered stomachs evidences the theory that Rumindolus fed on similarly difficult-to-digest vegetation.

In the passage, the author develops the argument by

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Which of the following best describes the function of the sentence in ?