i chose ab cause if few means no then it means no company is walking an insular path
doesnt this kinda contradict the excel sheet? if it doesnt then it is prolly not a question that I like cause market is saturated - difficult to say if its a good thing or bad
I think math strategy does not apply here. You should think about the idea or function of the second part. expanding and swelling both of them alone can not be said positive or negative. But faltering and sputtering they can say enough about bad thing. The idea of the second sentence is something happened to some corporation’s profit that they choose to limit their operation or work. That can only happen when their profit decreases. I think that few is a trap here.
Since we r talking about profits going up, expanding and swelling both of them r positive. I do not understand what u r trying to imply by the idea of second sentence…I could argue that profits r increasing so no company is walking on a restricted or limited path and it makes perfect sense
Your argument sounds right but do you have any evidence that they were struggling or planning to shut down or walking on a restricted path and after that increase they changed their plan and decided to stay? In this case, I translated the “few” word as “some” and I think that makes more sense.
I think u r engaging in a lot of storytelling here, I would rather wait for an expert to comment on this
In your first reply you were telling a story and I just asked for evidence of any mention of your story in the SE question. I told no story in either of my replies. In my first reply, I just rephrased the idea.
Okay, let’s see what expert says about it.
A saturated market is a challenge to growing profitability (bad thing) for corporations. “And” tells me that the blank is also a bad thing, so I would choose faltering and sputtering. Profits are also definitely not expanding or swelling, because that’s the opposite of what a saturated market would imply for corporations.
Supporting evidence for a saturated market being a bad thing for corporations, from Googling “market saturation”: “What Does Market Saturation Mean? Market saturation happens when products or services in a particular market are no longer in demand due to multiple offerings by competition or simply less in demand.”
I would also argue that this is not using outside information, as it is the definition of a saturated market.
I understand that saturated markets is a bad thing but for someone who has no knowledge of markets u gotta bring in outside knowledge to figure out whether it is a bad thing or good one. we r talking about more evidence here. On the GRE they would definitely not test u simply on the basis of whether u r aware of what is a saturated market. there has to be more evidence.
and this is definitely outside knowledge: u dont find the term “saturated market” in a dictionary dude, this is something related to economics
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Just curious, is this an ETS question?
A saturated market is directly understood to be a bad thing for the supply side. I don’t think this requires storytelling - just an understanding of what the phrase means. If we expect to require no outside knowledge whatsoever, I could argue that this question is impossible, because we can’t know if corporations are motivated to make money, so I can not make any statements regarding profits.
I would say that we should generally expect to need to know what phrases mean to make choices, but if you don’t like this answer, then I could also support this same answer with:
- Just put “saturated” as a guess in the blank, due to the “and”. Faltering/sputtering (losing momentum) is a better match with saturated (unable to continue growing) than expanding/swelling (continuing to grow)
- (I don’t like this path, as I believe it requires a bit more storytelling) Key word in the second section is “insular”. If American corporations are choosing to NOT be insular, then they are choosing to grow beyond the American market. This could reasonably imply that profits are not doing well so they need to look beyond the domestic market, so profits would be faltering/sputtering.