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The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station. "Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs." 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. Response : Before reaching to final decision of what should be the content of late night news programs, there are few analysis which needs to be done for effective decision. It is said in the statement that advertising companies have cancelled their contract with television station, but what is the actual reason of cancellation should be known. It might be that they are unhappy with price which they were paying for the advertisement. Or local businesses might be in loss themselve, so they do not want to increase their spending on advertising. There might be the case, even if local bussinesses have cancelled their contract with the television company, revenue generated from national news broadcast in late night news program have nullified that effect. Manager states that as local bussinesses have canceled there contract with the television company, they will have revenue loss. But before reaching this conclusion it is necessary to analysis what was the revenue generated by television company when weather and local news was telecasted in late night news program and what is the revenue generated when national news is telecasted in the same time slot. It might happen that although local businesses have canceled their contract with the television company, still revenue generated with national news is more than that generated from weather and local news. Although number of complaints received by the television station are related to weather and local news coverage, when timing for national news is increased and local news and weather decreased in late night news program, it do not essentially means that viewers have concerns related to timing of weather and local news. It can be the case, where actually viewers are expressing their concern related to the content of the weather and local news telecasted, not timing of news telecasted. So before reaching to the conclusion whether timing for weather and local news should be restored to former level, above analysis needs to be done for better understanding of the problem in hand and for effective decision.

Please help explain solving this question; A dishonest dealer marks up the price of all his goods by 25% and gives a discount of 10% to the customer. Besides, he also cheats both his supplier and buyer by 100 grams while buying or selling 1 kilogram. Find the percentage profit earned by the shopkeeper. OPTIONS 1) 37.5% 2) 25% 3) 32.5% 4) 27.5% I got the initial multipliers down as (1.25)(0.9) which I finally recently learned from a Magoosh flashcard. Rest of the description on cheating a 100g from each 1000g and how to apply that to P=R-C is where I am having the difficulty.