The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a food distribution company with food storage warehouses in several cities. "Recently, we signed a contract with the Fly-Away Pest Control Company to provide pest control services at our warehouse in Palm City, but last month we discovered that over $20,000 worth of food there had been destroyed by pest damage. Meanwhile, the Buzzoff Pest Control Company, which we have used for many years in Palm City, continued to service our warehouse in Wintervale, and last month only $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. Even though the price charged by Fly-Away is considerably lower, our best means of saving money is to return to Buzzoff for all our pest control services."
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.
The vice president states in a memo that returning to Buzzoff Company's products is the better way to save the costs due to pest damage. However, the vice president made some assumptions that are not reasonable that switching back to Buzzoff might not be a bright idea.
First of all, the vice president assumed that the pest company plays the only role in determining the food losses. Assuming that the two warehouse have the same weather. If the ware house at Palm City has a more humid weather and scorching sun, the food stored there might be easily rotten which allures pests to destroy them. Although efforts are made to prevent pests, a certain amount of food damage is eventually inevitable. On the other hand, if Wintervale is a cold and dry region, the warehouse located there might not be easily affected by pests.
Secondly, the different configurations of the warehouses play an crucial role also. The warehouse in Palm City might be located near a lake or wheat field where pests can easily reproduce increase their amount. While warehouse in Wintervale is located at the urban surround by residents. Lowering its chance of food destruction. The vice president assumes that the two warehouse have the same conditions which might be authentic.
Thirdly, the two two ware might be storing different kind of food. At Palm City, if food such as fruits and vegetables are stored. They are already having a significant of getting rotten if not carefully protected. These food are also usually easier attracting insects other animals. Meanwhile, if the warehouse at Wintervale are storing produced food products that are carefully packaged, or frozen food. Chances by infected by pest is lower. The vice president also need to consider that the two warehouses might be storing different products.
Last but not least, the memo indicates that Buzzoff Company will do better than Fly-Away company. However, due the previous use of Buzzoff company products at Palm city, pests might have already adapted its products and no longer be affected by its products. Perhaps its Fly-Away doing better now controlling the pests. Therefore, the vice president can't judge only by the effectiveness of their products.
In conclusion, the argument depends on several critical but unproven assumptions that need to be addressed by the vice president.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 385 350
No. of Characters: 1914 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.43 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.971 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.571 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.042 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.208 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.299 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 448, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ventually inevitable. On the other hand, if Wintervale is a cold and dry region, ...
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Line 9, column 63, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...t configurations of the warehouses play an crucial role also. The warehouse in Pal...
^^
Line 9, column 79, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
... of the warehouses play an crucial role also. The warehouse in Palm City might be lo...
^^^^
Line 9, column 212, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” 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.
...easily reproduce increase their amount. While warehouse in Wintervale is located at t...
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Line 13, column 14, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: two
...h might be authentic. Thirdly, the two two ware might be storing different kind of...
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Line 13, column 22, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'ware' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'wares'.
Suggestion: wares
...be authentic. Thirdly, the two two ware might be storing different kind of food...
^^^^
Line 13, column 216, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this food' or 'These foods'?
Suggestion: This food; These foods
...ting rotten if not carefully protected. These food are also usually easier attracting inse...
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Line 17, column 351, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...he pests. Therefore, the vice president cant judge only by the effectiveness of thei...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, while, in conclusion, kind of, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 16.3942115768 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1984.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15324675325 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64636195061 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.485714285714 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 616.5 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.9875130256 57.8364921388 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 82.6666666667 119.503703932 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0416666667 23.324526521 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54166666667 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249290007007 0.218282227539 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07560036369 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0465334424068 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132535948957 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.042119781313 0.0628817314937 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.3799401198 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.29 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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