The following appeared in a memo from the new vice president of Sartorian, a company that manufactures men's clothing.
"Five years ago, at a time when we had difficulty obtaining reliable supplies of high-quality wool fabric, we discontinued production of our popular alpaca overcoat. Now that we have a new fabric supplier, we should resume production. Given the outcry from our customers when we discontinued this product and the fact that none of our competitors offers a comparable product, we can expect pent-up consumer demand for our alpaca coats. Due to this demand and the overall increase in clothing prices, we can predict that Sartorian's alpaca overcoats will be more profitable than ever before."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The new president of Sartorian (S), a men’s clothing manufacturer, has come up with an astonishing idea to increase S’s profit! Its essence consists in restarting the production of S’s popular alpaca overcoat, abandoned five years ago because of unreliable supplies of high-quality wool. The prediction that this strategy will be profitable is based on the arrival of a new fabric supplier, the assumption that the alpaca coat is as fashionable today as it was five years ago, the fact that none of S’s competitors produces such a model, and the expectation of a general price increase. Ho...
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