Self-study
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Summarize Argument
The author concludes that offering a rebate on Grow-Again will not increase sales and so will be unprofitable. There is no real support for this claim It's not clear how the earlier sentences, about what Grow-Again does and the recommnded dosage, lead to this conclusion.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes there’s some reason, connected to the recommended dosage of Grow-Again, why the rebate would not increase sales, and so would be unprofitable for the company.
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a
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If anything, this might weaken the conclusion. If people tend to use more Grow-Again than they need to, even though it's not actually more effective, they might seek to buy more if a rebate was offered, increasing sales.
b
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This doesn't strengthen the conclusion. It's not clear how variations in effectiveness in individual cases would connect to sales and profits in the case of a rebate.
c
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This strengthens the argument. If a rebate on Grow-Again will not attract any new customers, and if using more Grow-Again doesn't increase the product's effectiveness, suggesting that existing customers won't buy more Grow-Again than they already do, then offering a rebate would just be selling the same product, in the same amounts, to the same customers, but at a lower price.
d
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We don’t care about what causes baldness. We care about the effects of the rebate.
e
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We're not interested in the manufacturing cost. We're interested in the claim that a rebate wouldn’t increase sales.