59. The following appeared in a memo from the president of Bower Builders, a company that constructs new homes.
A nationwide survey reveals that the two most-desired home features are a large family room and a large, well- appointed kitchen. A number of homes in our area built by our competitor Domus Construction have such features and have sold much faster and at significantly higher prices than the national average. To boost sales and profits, we should increase the size of the family rooms and kitchens in all the homes we build and should make state-of-the-art kitchens a standard feature. Moreover, our larger family rooms and kitchens can come at the expense of the dining room, since many of our recent buyers say they do not need a separate dining room for family meals.
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.
The president of Bower builders suggests that they need to make a change to increase sales and profits by having a larger family room and kitchen. However, the argument supporting the idea is not completely logically convincing, since it ignores certain critical assumptions.
First of all, a nationwide survey has shown that favorite features for most-desired home are a large family room and kitchen. Thus, the argument assumes that these features also fit to the local people’s taste. It is not clear, however, a nationwide survey truly represent opinions from the local people. Perhaps, the l...
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Argument 1 -- OK
Argument 2 -- OK
Argument 3 -- OK
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