The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago During this same time period | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper.
"The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure fair prices for consumers."
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.

In a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper, it’s stated that the Batavia authorities should regulate the dairy market in order to abate the growing price of milk. This proposal is based on the pieces of evidence such as statistics that showed increasing numbers of dairy farmers and rocketing prices of dairy products in the local market. However, before this proposal could be accurately evaluated, the three following questions should be answered.

To begin with, are the prices at the local Excello Food market the same as in other areas of the Batavia? It’s possible that in other food markets the price of milk is significantly lower than in the Excello market. Subsequently, using the price of milk at one local grocery shop and extrapolating it, as the price indicator, on the whole market could lead to pernicious effects. If the above assumption has merit, the excessive regulations on the milk market would be depleting, in their consequences, to farmers.

Furthermore, will the price of milk still be high, when the supply increases? The fundamental law of supply and demand states that when the supply increases and demand is at a constant rate or even decreases the price of the product should decrease in value and vice-versa. Consequently increasing numbers of farmers probably will reflect in the market price of their product, soon. In that case strict regulations of the dairy market would be viewed as an inadequate decision because the market can autonomously regulate itself.

The next question, is the actual numbers of the milk-producing cows increased? In essence do the capacity of milk provided to the consumers inflated the same as the dairy farmer numbers? Perhaps, during the last decade big conglomerates of dairy farmers fractioned into smaller groups, and there was no significant increase in cows. And it was just factiousness of the farmers that indicated growing rates among themselves. If the above assumption has credit, then again fundamental law of the supply/demand regulates the market itself. The supply is at a constant rate, however, demand rocket’s in a recent decade, thus the rising price of milk is a substantiated phenomenon within the modern economic theory and it needs no interference.

In conclusion, the following argument is flawed due to the unwarranted assumptions that it relies on. If the above recommendation can be enhanced with the additional evidence(in the form of a study or research), then it will be feasible to evaluate the propriety of the proposal about the regulation of the Batavian dairy market.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 275, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Consequently,
...hould decrease in value and vice-versa. Consequently increasing numbers of farmers probably ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, furthermore, however, if, so, still, then, thus, in conclusion, such as, on the whole, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2171.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 420.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16904761905 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93655029999 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490476190476 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 684.0 705.55239521 97% => 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: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4417475967 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.263157895 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1052631579 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.70786347227 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103731087292 0.218282227539 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0394891632666 0.0743258471296 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0447111007643 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0668970687933 0.128457276422 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0548289315586 0.0628817314937 87% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, furthermore, however, if, so, still, then, thus, in conclusion, such as, on the whole, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments