Which is most clearly the central idea of the paragraph?

  Question 8a of 10 Understand the Impact of Time 1060808
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  Question Type: Multiple Choice
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  Question: Read the following paragraph:
Because they come from a business background, executives tend to have little to no understanding of their company’s product or service whether it’s frozen potatoes or deep tissue massages. Why, therefore, would an executive ever bother to invest in his company’s product or service when he can invest in sales, marketing, account management, or something else that has meaning in his world?
Which is most clearly the central idea of the paragraph?
 
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A. Executives are largely unremarkable people who play it safe.
B. Middle managers are in the best position to make company decisions.
C. Sales, marketing, and similar departments are superior.
*D. Companies tend to marginalize their products and services. Correct!
 
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The correct answer is: Companies tend to marginalize their products and services.

  Question 8b of 10 Understand the Impact of Time 1060809
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  Question Type: Multiple Choice
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  Question: Read the following paragraph:
The only ability that we know for certain that standardized tests can measure is the ability to take tests. A student with a short attention span, a student who suffers from lack of sleep, a student who fails to decipher a poorly written question, is doomed to bear the label of “unsatisfactory aptitude” when aptitude was never in fact a variable.
Which is most clearly the central idea of the paragraph?
 
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A. Aptitude is impossible to assess.
B. Only devoted students succeed.
*C. Standardized tests are ineffective. Correct!
D. Exams are often poorly written.
 
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The correct answer is: Standardized tests are ineffective.

  Question 8c of 10 Understand the Impact of Time 1060810
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  Question: Read the following paragraph:
Hierarchies the ranking of human beings from highest to lowest have always provoked irrational attitudes in people. Every entry-level employee knows that her company’s management ranks are full of undeserving buffoons who could never cut it among the working classes. As soon as that employee becomes a manager, however, she suddenly feels that her subordinates are inferior simpletons.
Which is most clearly the central idea of the paragraph?
 
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A. Humans have always lived in hierarchies.
*B. Hierarchical thinking is rarely accurate. Correct!
C. Companies are organized unfairly.
D. People tend to be irrational.
 
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The correct answer is: Hierarchical thinking is rarely accurate.

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