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A product that represents a clear technological advance over

by 306097127 Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:53 am

A product that represents a clear technological advance over competing products can generally command a high price.Surprisingly,perhaps,the strategy to maximize overall profit from a new product is to charge than the greastest price the market will bear.Many companies charge the maximum possible price for such a product,because they want to make as much profit as they can and technological advances tend to be quickly surpassed.The drawback is that large profits on the new product give competitors a strong incentive to quickly match the new product's capabilities.
In the argument above,the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
A The first is the postition the argument advocates;the second presents grounds for rejecting an alternative position
B The first is the position the argument advocates;the second is an alternative position that the argument rejects
C The first presents a strategy for achieving a certain goal;the second presents a drawback to that strategy
D The first presents a strategy for achieving a certain goal;the second presents grounds for preferring a different goal
E The first presents a strategy that,according to the argument,is ineffective;the second presents a way of improving the effectiveness of that

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the answer is A,why the first bold face is not a strategy but a position?Why the second bold face is the grounds for rejecting an alternative position?
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Re: A product that represents a clear technological advance over

by 306097127 Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:15 am

up!!!
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Re: A product that represents a clear technological advance over

by jnelson0612 Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:42 pm

Hi,
Will you please go back and carefully edit this argument in your post so that it exactly matches the original question? Because the way it is written it's clearly missing some words, and it's difficult for me to know what's going on in here as a result.

Thanks!
Jamie Nelson
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