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.

See the detailed answer in explanation.
Explanation
The memo discusses in detail about the statement s made in order to suppose a suggestion that might get more profits for the firm. It is essential that the statements need to be supported by proper data and facts. The given statement is unsupported and is built upon a basic premise of an expected possibility in the future. The memo states that a change in the manner or pattern in which the house is built will probably be helpful for the company to improve its nature and also profit.
The company believes that they would be able to improve the profit by replacing the dining room space with more space for living room and kitchen, they also focus on state of the art kitchen facilities. It is impertaive that the company states the various assumptions and the basis on which these assumptions would be stated.
The company has failed to show and prove any given data or fact that ought of lead to the evidence that there might be possible increase in the profits.
The preferential choices of the people have also not been stated any where in the passage. The random generalization only weaknes and undermiens the statement.
the statement has to be supported with survey from the people or the purchasers which might provide better insights to the given statements.
It is essential for the company to consider the other factors and look into the sales for the holistic perpoective rather that from a profit oriented angle.
The type of assumptions made in the memo are subjective and inclined towards a great extent. which might be flawed in the event of not proving any Isubslantial evidences.
To conclude. I think that it is essential for the company to substantiate the views and assumptions with better data and facts, failing which it would remain to be flawed. Any assumptions needs to be places on valid and reasonable ideas without which the core of the premise would hold no good.

Not only do the brains of people with great memories appear anatomically_________those of control subjects, but in terms of general cognitive ability, great memorizers appear to be well within the normal range.

• A. indistinguishable from
• B. younger than
• C. independent of
• D. superior to
• E. incomparable to

Until 1992. microprocessor types were identified by number, and for a long time they were considered so
_________that manufacturers would share design specifications for them.

• A. fungible
• B. interchangeable
• C. inimitable
• D. integral
• E. essential
• F. perishable

In the at-plane, line k intersects the rectangle shown at points P and O.
Which of the following represents the slope of line k ?
A)

B)

C)

D)

E)

• A. Option
• B. Option
• C. Option
• D. Option
• E. Option

Instances of "galactic cannibalism"-mergers in which large galaxies completely consume smaller ones-may be fairly common. Tidal forces produced by the Milky Way's powerful gravity, for example, appear to be dismantling and engulfing a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius, producing large clumps and streamers of stars connecting the two galaxies. Astronomers have also observed two dense clusters of stars and gas at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy, an apparent "double nucleus" that may contain the remnant of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy. But this twin-lobed appearance could also be created by two parts of a single nucleus bisected by a lane of dust. Scientists believe that only about 25 percent of such apparent double nuclei actually represent galactic cannibalism. Many of the rest result from the illusion of proximity that occurs when objects at different distances appear along the same line of sight: others consist of debris from galactic
"collisions." in which one galaxy has passed through another without merging, causing waves of new star formation.
The primary purpose of the passage is to

• A. suggest that galactic cannibalism occurs more commonly than previously supposed
• B. outline the process by which galactic cannibalism takes place
• C. present evidence that galactic cannibalism has occurred in a given instance
• D. indicate the difficulty of determining whether galactic cannibalism has occurred in a given instance
• E. demonstrate flaws in the evidence used to prove that galactic cannibalism actually occurs