The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend Of the two leading real estate firms in our town Adams Realty and Fitch Realty Adams Realty is clearly superior Adams has 40 real estate agents in contrast Fitch has 25 many of whom work only | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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The following appeared in a letter from a homeowner to a friend.

"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town — Adams Realty and Fitch Realty — Adams Realty is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents; in contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago I listed my home with Fitch, and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams Realty."

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

In the letter to his/her friend, the homeowner has stated Adams Realty as being clearly superior as compared to Fitch Reality. However his conclusion is supported by various unstated assumptions which needs to be critiqued before it can be taken at its face value.

Firstly, the homeowner assumes Adam Realty's superior by stating that Adams has 40 real estate agents whereas Fitch has only 25 and many of them work only part-time. The fact that the agents of Adams Realty could be having shorter office hours than Fitch hasn't been taken into consideration. There is also the fact that quantity doesn't necessitates quality and thereby Fitch worker's could easily be more efficient than Adams even if they work for shorter hours. If either of this possibility happens to be true, then the assumption doesn't hold any water and cannot be used to attest to Adams Realty's superiority

Secondly, even after stating that Adams Realty employs more people than Fitch Realty, the homeowner has compared the revenues of both the companies and has concluded Adams as being superior just because their revenue is higher by $24,000. There is a high possibility that Adams's expenditure could be higher than Fitch's and thereby, Fitch could be doing better in terms of profit. Without this being ascertained, the assumption of Adams's being superior because of its higher revenue doesn't hold any merit.

Lastly, the homeowner has compared the time it has taken for two different properties to sell in a period of ten years. There could be two reason that this isn't because of Fitch's Realty being inferior - one being that there is a high possibility that the house would have taken the same amount of time even if it had been listed in Adams's Realty 10 years ago and another being that there is also the possibility that second home, that sold out more quickly than the first one mentioned, could have been in a better condition or it could have been in a better location or even both. To conclude the superiority of Adams Realty without taking these variables into account is erroneous.

To conclude, the author's conclusion of Adams Realty being superior than Fitch Realty depends on the three above mentioned assumptions - the difference in working hours, the revenue and the supposed efficiency of the firms. When there is the possibility that any one of these three or even all three assumptions are mistaken, the conclusion of Adams Realty being superior is heavily weakened.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, whereas

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2056.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97820823245 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47008521036 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455205811138 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 106.180877272 57.8364921388 184% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.153846154 119.503703932 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.7692307692 23.324526521 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.325869101385 0.218282227539 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161734741703 0.0743258471296 218% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.140614030863 0.0701772020484 200% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213603766811 0.128457276422 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0941510139698 0.0628817314937 150% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.2 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, whereas

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