SECTION 2 TIME—25 MINUTES 18 QUESTIONS DIRECTIONS

13.

The primary purpose of the passage is to

increased significantly

(A) contrast possible outcomes of a type of business

(D) was an innovation that competing banks could

investment

have imitated

(B) suggest more careful evaluation of a type of

(E) was adequate to bring the bank’s general level of

business investment

service to a level that was comparable with that

(C) illustrate various ways in which a type of

of its competitors.

business investment could fail to enhance

revenues

(D) trace the general problems of a company to a

certain type of business investment

(E) criticize the way in which managers tend to

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analyze the costs and benefits of business

investments