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#23044
Complete Question Explanation
Assumption. The correct answer choice is (B)
The manager explains that installing the computer network during the day will disrupt work, but installing during night will incur higher installations charges. The manager concludes that since saving money is important, the network should be installed during the day.
The manager assumes that the lost productivity during the daytime installation costs less than the extra money the night installation would. Since you are asked what the manager assumes, you should look for that in an answer choice.
Answer choice (A): Since the monetary value of the network must be covered in either case, it is not an immediate consideration when discussing the proper installation time. This choice attempts to get you to quickly "bite" on the cost of another factor, but gives you the wrong factor, so this choice is wrong.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. The manager presumes that there is less loss from interrupting work than there is loss from installing at night.
Answer choice (C): Since you already know the relative cost of installation itself, it does not matter whether that loss is incurred because of differences in the installation crew. "Installation charges" clearly implies that the company hires the job out (your employees receive wages, you do not pay them charges), so you should not have presumed that this answer choice addresses whether the company will have to hire more employees. Besides, even if the company did have to hire more employees, that could still be a temporary arrangement that would not cost as much as paying for a night installation.
Answer choice (D): The stimulus concerns when the network should be installed, and this choice concerns what will immediately follow installation. This choice is irrelevant and incorrect. Alternately, this choice does not establish that the increased productivity that might follow on the installation day would make up for the productivity lost while the system was being installed.
Answer choice (E): The manager does not need to assume that most of the employees will be able to be productive during the installation. Even if none of the employees are productive during the installation, the extra cost of installing at night could be so high that it is better to simply give up a day of productivity, so the argument can be true even if this unnecessary assumption is false.
Assumption. The correct answer choice is (B)
The manager explains that installing the computer network during the day will disrupt work, but installing during night will incur higher installations charges. The manager concludes that since saving money is important, the network should be installed during the day.
The manager assumes that the lost productivity during the daytime installation costs less than the extra money the night installation would. Since you are asked what the manager assumes, you should look for that in an answer choice.
Answer choice (A): Since the monetary value of the network must be covered in either case, it is not an immediate consideration when discussing the proper installation time. This choice attempts to get you to quickly "bite" on the cost of another factor, but gives you the wrong factor, so this choice is wrong.
Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice. The manager presumes that there is less loss from interrupting work than there is loss from installing at night.
Answer choice (C): Since you already know the relative cost of installation itself, it does not matter whether that loss is incurred because of differences in the installation crew. "Installation charges" clearly implies that the company hires the job out (your employees receive wages, you do not pay them charges), so you should not have presumed that this answer choice addresses whether the company will have to hire more employees. Besides, even if the company did have to hire more employees, that could still be a temporary arrangement that would not cost as much as paying for a night installation.
Answer choice (D): The stimulus concerns when the network should be installed, and this choice concerns what will immediately follow installation. This choice is irrelevant and incorrect. Alternately, this choice does not establish that the increased productivity that might follow on the installation day would make up for the productivity lost while the system was being installed.
Answer choice (E): The manager does not need to assume that most of the employees will be able to be productive during the installation. Even if none of the employees are productive during the installation, the extra cost of installing at night could be so high that it is better to simply give up a day of productivity, so the argument can be true even if this unnecessary assumption is false.