OG117

[ministar]

A company's two divisions performed with remarkable consistency over the past three years:in each of those years, the pharmaceuticals division has accounted for roughly 20 percent of dollar sales and 40 percent of profits,and the chemicals division for the balance.

Which of the following can properly be inferred regarding the past three years from the statement above?

(A) Total dollar sales for each of the company's divisions have remained roughly constant.
(B) The pharmaceuticals division has faced stiffer competition in its markets than has the chemicals division.
(C) The chemicals division has realized lower profits per dollar of sales than has the pharmaceuticals division.
(D) The product mix offered by each of the company's division has remained unchanged.
(E) Highly profitable products accounted for higher percentage of the chemicals division's sales than of those of the pharmaceuticals division.

Ans:C
可以幫我翻譯一下題目嗎?? 看了很多遍 還是搞不清楚完全的意思

[eggcake520]

一個公司的兩個部門在過去三年的表現有一致性:藥部門佔了20%的sales與80%利潤，化學部門for the balance(=佔80%的sales與20%利潤)

問infer?

[oguz]

有人可以解釋一下這一題嗎?
According to the reasoning of OG11th:
What can be inferred from these numbers? If the pharmaceutical division made 40 percentage of the company's profits on 20 percent of the company's dollar sales, then the chemical division made 60 percent of the profits on 80 percent of the sales, Comparing these percentages makes it clear that the pharmaceutical division makes more profit per dollar of sales than the chemicals division does.

為什麼會有這樣的比例關係?
是 for the balance 的緣故嗎
那又是什麼意思呢?

[quentas]

balance:剩餘部份 I think.

[dibert8]

pharmaceutical division : 賣 20%, 賺 40%
chemical division : 賣 80%, 賺 60%
所以 pharmaceutical division 比較會賺錢