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Excess inventory, a massive problem for many businesses, has several [#permalink]
Hi, can you please explain question number 5,
I chose B, as I believe the managers are not aware as the Government didn't spread about the policy well

Also please explain question number 4 and the answer choices,

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The managers of these companies are not deliberately wasteful; they are simply unaware of all their alternatives. In 1976 the Internal Revenue Service provided a tangible incentive for businesses to contribute their products to charity.

from the sentence after we could easily infer A

The managers are not aware that other people could find useful those products even with tiny imperfections that for them are unuseful or that they do not see alternative usage
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The drawback is the remote possibility of getting caught by the news media.

1) Dumping perfectly useful products can turn into a public relations nightmare.

2) Children living in poverty are freezing and XYZ Company has just sent 500 new snow-suits to the local dump.

3) Parents of young children are barely getting by and QPS Company dumps 1,000 cases of disposable diapers because they have slight imperfections.

E is the answer

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(E) how the news media could portray dumping to the detriment of the manufacturer’s reputation
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