Principle Questions - - Question 31

Production manager: The building materials that we produce meet industry safety codes but pose some safety risk. Sinc...

tselimovic November 14, 2014

Clarification

Could you please explain answer choice C as it relates to the stimulus?

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Naz November 18, 2014

The product manager's conclusion is: "we should stop producing our current product and sell only the safer version in order to protect public safety."

Why? Even though the building materials that they produce meet industry safety codes, they pose some safety risks, and we know that a technology has been recently developed that is a safer version of the current product.

Answer choice (C) states: "Companies should not sell a product that poses safety risks if they are technologically capable of producing a safer version of that product."

The production manager has stated that they are technologically capable of producing a safer version of the product (remember this is not the same thing as being able to successfully market the product, merely being able to MAKE the product).

So, according to answer choice (C), their company should not sell that product. Thus, answer choice (C), if established, would justify the production manager's conclusion of no longer producing the current product and only selling the safer one.

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