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.
The new vice president states that since alpaca fabric is available, production of alpaca overcoats should be resumed. He justifies his statement by citing that a 5 year hiatus of the overcoats not being manufactured by Sartorian and the rival company not manufacturing them any more will prompt customers to purchase these overcoats in large numbers. He further reasons that, since overall prices of clothes has risen in the past 5 years, customers wouldn't mind paying more thereby ensuring significant company profit.
The vice president presumes that the replacement of the previous supplier al...
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