"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 $10,000 worth of the food stored there had been destroyed by pest damage. This difference in pest damage is best explained by the negligence of Fly-Away."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that they signed a contract with fly-away pest control company but the amount of foods destroyed in palm city is unusual and 20000$ worth of foods destroy during a month than venter vile. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which more critical, yet ignored questions need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is that 20000$ worth of foods has been destroyed by pest damage during last month. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether Fly-away services are the main reasons for this damage. One point that should be considered is that the author does not provide any information about the worth of foods in Palm city. In fact, maybe more than half of the foods have been destroyed during last years and remained in the store but they did not realize the number of spoiled foods. It is also important to say that maybe the situation of pest is more critical in Palm City, which takes more time to control.
The author also asserts that Buzzoff pest control company take the responsibility of pest damage last month in Winterville but only 10,000$ worth of foods has been destroyed there. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if buzz off the company is more reliable and workers are dexterous than the Fly-away company. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that comparison of two companies might not be a logical task due to the fact that the situations might be different in both companies. Indeed, the author does not show any information or data about later months. Maybe the amount of foods destroyed by pest damage is a lot more than usual in other cities by buzz off company. The author just provided the data for months, so, the information could not be reliable and accurate owing to the fact that perhaps pest damage reaches its minimum level in next months by Fly-away Company. Moreover, maybe services provided by two companies are totally different in various realms.
Putting the two previous assumptions aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author the difference just shows the laxity of the Fly-Away company. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if a difference could explain for negligence. One point that should not go unnoticed is that maybe the cost of services by Buzz off the company is less than Fly-away Company and the author just want to justify the superiority of the Buzz off. Otherwise, an accurate survey during last years might show the real difference between two companies.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of questions having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
need to be more clear and organized for the arguments. Here goes a sample:
https://www.testbig.com/gmatgre-essays/following-appeared-memo-vice-pre…
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 521 350
No. of Characters: 2446 1500
No. of Different Words: 222 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.778 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.695 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.372 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.81 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.639 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.508 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.059 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 176, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$20000'.
Suggestion: $20000
...s destroyed in palm city is unusual and 20000$ worth of foods destroy during a month t...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 93, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$20000'.
Suggestion: $20000
...uth and can be overtly impugned is that 20000$ worth of foods has been destroyed by pe...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 136, Rule ID: CURRENCY[1]
Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$000'.
Suggestion: $000
...e last month in Winterville but only 10,000$ worth of foods has been destroyed there...
^^^^
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e totally different in various realms. Putting the two previous assumptions asi...
^^^
Line 7, column 76, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
...s aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author the difference ...
^^
Line 9, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2504.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 521.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80614203455 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43763658616 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437619961612 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 755.1 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.7168288421 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.238095238 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8095238095 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04761904762 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282336115311 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0864266376933 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.094246934609 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163208570822 0.128457276422 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10278196554 0.0628817314937 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 48.3550499002 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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