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[RonPurewal]

Hi Ron,

How to select answer between B and D for following question when time is really pressing you.

the blue thing can't meaningfully change your strategy.
you should still be trying to do the same thing as always:
• read the question BUT NOT THE ANSWER CHOICES
• PREDICT the answer, as exactly as you can
• THEN look at the choices with your prediction as a standard.

if you do this, you should be able to kill at least a couple wrong answers fairly quickly.
the worst mistake, generally speaking, is 'going through the answer choices' WITHOUT an existing standard against which to evaluate them. that's when the choices have the power to 'take you for a ride' to faraway places in irrelevant-land.

[RonPurewal]

Also I have trivial question about this paragraph. On other forum, I read one folk solved this passage within 4 min and with all correct . Although I don't doubt his ability, but only steaming out of curiosity, Is it possible for even native speaker to solve this passage within 4 min and with all questions right?.

say you're trying to run a mile in 5 minutes.

some random dude on the internet declares that he can run a mile in 4 minutes.

if that's true, good for him!

possible constructive value FOR YOU?
zero.

[VikrantS137]

The passage states that the oh-no system allowed production to meet the "minimum resource requirement". Use of minimum possible resources = lowest possible production cost.

I see what you're getting at here, in the sense that "cost" is usually cast in terms of money, and money isn't explicitly mentioned here. But, think about how you would define "minimum resources" when you're talking about ALL the resources required for some production process.
If you were talking about just one resource, then you could define this in all sorts of different ways -- dollars, pounds, gallons, whatever. But the only reasonable way to aggregate a whole bunch of disparate resources into a single measurement is to put that measurement in dollars. Hence, "minimum resources used" = minimum production cost.

I have 2 doubts on answer option B - "(B) It minimized the effort required to produce automobiles."

(1)

Hypothetically, what is the effort required to cut a tree?
We would answer it something like - 1 person would require 7 hours to cut a tree.

So effort required = 7 person hours

Now, in this case, the person hours decreased as fewer workers will be deployed to carry out the work in same time.

I read through the previous posts. And I realized the definition for effort vary.

My understanding of effort --> How Management looks at the effort. (person hours).

While your understanding of effort --> How a worker looks at the effort. (energy spent by a worker)

But, the question stem is concerned about --> "which of the following as the primary advantage to companies in implementing the "OH! NO!" system?"

So my perspective of definition of effort seems reasonable. Isn't so?


(2)

Reading closely to the question stem, "which of the following as the primary advantage to companies in implementing the "OH! NO!" system?"

Common sense : company will like cost to reduce primarily rather than effort

Hence, though both effort and cost are reduced. But, the question is asking what is primarily the company is interested in, this single word makes answer choice C correct and B wrong.

Kindly share thoughts.

[RonPurewal]

first, and most importantly, you will NEVER have to nit-pick the definitions of words.
never ever ever.
all of the wrong answers will be COMPLETELY wrong. if you are looking for 'subtle' differences, you are not approaching the problems correctly.

[RonPurewal]

My understanding of effort --> How Management looks at the effort. (person hours).

While your understanding of effort --> How a worker looks at the effort. (energy spent by a worker)

this distinction is irrelevant, because BOTH of these things go up when the resources are removed.

that the latter measure will increase is obvious.

but we know the former measure increases, too, because the workers have to start working overtime. (...and as soon as they stop having to work overtime, the resource requirement is reduced again—and then the number of hours goes up again.)