- AThe society's weavers are paid for each piece woven rather than for each day worked
- BThe cloth carried to the exhibitions is woven on the society's own looms and not bought in from other weavers
- CThe two exhibitions are held in different months of the year
- DBuyers can be found for the additional pieces, whether at the exhibitions or elsewhere — that what is carried to two exhibitions sells out does not of itself show that twice as much cloth would be bought
Step-by-Step Solution
Selling out shows that the society carried no more than the exhibitions would absorb; it does not show how much more they would have absorbed, and it says nothing at all about the rest of the year. The step from a sold-out stall to a doubled year's output therefore rests on the additional cloth finding a buyer somewhere, and if it does not the society will have doubled its yarn bill and its wages to fill a godown. How the weavers are paid bears on what the doubling would cost, not on whether the cloth would sell. Where the cloth is woven bears on who profits by the sale. And the months in which the exhibitions fall would matter to the society's cash flow while leaving the size of the market exactly where the secretary found it.
Answer: D) Buyers can be found for the additional pieces, whether at the exhibitions or elsewhere — that what is carried to two exhibitions sells out does not of itself show that twice as much cloth would be bought