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A delivery company will replace its gasoline vans with electric vans, asserting that doing so will lower its total operating costs. The electric vans cost more to purchase but less to fuel and maintain.

Which of the following would be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the company's assertion?

  1. Whether the fuel and maintenance savings over the vans' service life will exceed the additional purchase cost
  2. Whether the electric vans produce noticeably fewer emissions than the gasoline vans they would replace
  3. Whether the company's main competitors have already begun converting their delivery fleets to electric vans
  4. How many gasoline delivery vans the company currently operates across its various service regions and routes today
  5. Whether the company's regular customers would actively prefer that all of their future packages arrive by electric van

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