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 difficulties in obtaining reliable supplies of high quality wool fabric, we discontinued production of our alpaca overcoat. Now that we have a new fabric supplier, we should resume production. This coat should sell very well: since we have not offered an alpaca overcoat for five years and since our major competitor no longer makes an alpaca overcoat, there will be pent-up customer demand. Also, since the price of most types of clothing has increased in each of the past five years, customers should be willing to pay significantly higher prices for alpaca overcoats than they did five years ago, and our company profits will increase."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the argument presented, a new vice president of Sartorian, wants to resume production of the defunct alpaca overcoat on the assumption that it will increase their company's profits. However, his assumption about demand of alpaca overcoats does not have any data to back it up.
First of all, the vice president has made an assumption that their coat should sell very well as they have not offered this coat for five years. But, he is concluding this on the basis of market scenario that existed 5 years earlier and does not provide any kind of today's market survey, demand or market analysis t...
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