"Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. Only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers cannot distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term 'butter' to refer to either butter or margarine. Thus, to avoid the expense of purchasing butter and to increase profitability, the Happy Pancake House should extend this cost-saving change to its restaurants in the southeast and northeast as well."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The Business manager of Happy Pancake House has asked the franchise’s in the southeast and northeast parts of the United States to replace butter with margarine for increased profitability. He has come to this conclusion based on the business model implemented in the south western part of the country. However, before this recommendation can be evaluated the following questions must be answered.
Firstly , The argument states that only 2% of customers have complained.Perhaps it does not take into account the demographics of the customers. Maybe when the customers who had reviewed were mostl...
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 493 350
No. of Characters: 2520 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.712 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.112 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.72 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 147 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.409 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.768 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.545 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.314 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.128 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 8, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ing questions must be answered. Firstly , The argument states that only 2% of cus...
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Line 2, column 72, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Perhaps
...at only 2% of customers have complained.Perhaps it does not take into account the demog...
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Line 2, column 530, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...g Happy Pancake restaurants altogether. If either of these scenarios has merit the...
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Line 3, column 9, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...s manager does not hold merit. Secondly , The argument states that many servers r...
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Line 3, column 387, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...ervers reported. Though it may still me a large number of servers but it is a small representatio...
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Line 3, column 516, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ps there could have been instances where more butter loving customers had raised ...
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Line 3, column 734, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
.... If the presence of bias is indeed true , then the argument does not hold ground....
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Line 4, column 7, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...e argument does not hold ground. Lastly , The Statement asks the franchise stores...
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Line 4, column 648, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ucts or maybe these parts of the country are more nearer to farm lands thereby da...
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Line 4, column 654, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'nearer' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: nearer
...r maybe these parts of the country are more nearer to farm lands thereby dairy products co...
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Line 4, column 775, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...acks clarity on these many issues which if true can dent the profitability and goo...
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Line 5, column 235, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...idence scientific and systematic surveys , models followed by other competitors, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, whereas, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2561.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 492.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20528455285 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8583937523 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461382113821 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 787.5 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.0985479709 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.409090909 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3636363636 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.31818181818 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254792042451 0.218282227539 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704832539078 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0812037835583 0.0701772020484 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124473878256 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612327733326 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 98.500998004 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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