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 author of the argument is unsatisfied with the Fly-way Pest Control Company which produced greater damage to their food than the Buzzoff pest control services. The author concludes the argument stating that returning to Buzzoff would help him saving money. But the argument is rife with holes and assumptions on which the author derived his conclusion.
Firstly, the author of the argument stated that the worth of the food destroyed by Fly-Away Pest Control is higher than Buzzoff last month. But he never described what type of food were stored in Palm City and Wintervale warehouse. There is a chance for storing different kinds of food with varying expiration date and nature of food. Hence it is plausible for the Palm City warehouse to have food that are more prone to the pesticides or with less expiration date. So, the author made an assumption that both the warehouse has the same kind of food stored.
Secondly, the author failed to define the ratio of food stored to the ratio of food damaged and the area of the warehouses. The plausible scenarios would include the ratio of 2:5 as food destroyed to food kept in warehouse. While Buzzoff might have the ratio of 1:10. Hence there is a discrepancy in the ratio of food between two warehouses. The concentration of the pesticides used by Fly-Away could be higher than the Buzzoff which would have led to the greater damage to foods.
Moreover, the total area of the warehouses are presumed to be same to conclude the worth of damaged food at Palm City is high. However changes in warehouse area might pose some variations in the conclusion. In addition, the author didn't state the reason why they shifted to Fly-Away Pest Control company from Buzzoff. The author might have to mention the reason whether he moved because of Fly-Away's low cost or was the Buzzoff unavailable to sign contract or was there air was filled infallibility of Fly-Away Pest Control.
Finally, the author concludes that in order to save money he has to return to Buzoff which presents an unstated assumption that the loss made by Buzoff last month is less than the profit he acquired as a whole.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 248, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to save' or 'save'.
Suggestion: to save; save
...hat returning to Buzzoff would help him saving money. But the argument is rife with ho...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 336, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ing expiration date and nature of food. Hence it is plausible for the Palm City wareh...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 269, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...e Buzzoff might have the ratio of 1:10. Hence there is a discrepancy in the ratio of ...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 128, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...h of damaged food at Palm City is high. However changes in warehouse area might pose so...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 232, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...the conclusion. In addition, the author didnt state the reason why they shifted to Fl...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, as to, in addition, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 369.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82113821138 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48996782653 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449864498645 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 548.1 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9155529636 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8333333333 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.44444444444 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.285786056964 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0971228755823 0.0743258471296 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0776571351495 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157216041171 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0951651800022 0.0628817314937 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.3799401198 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.