Because city council members in small towns are intimately

Hi focus2k13

For assumption question, you need to extract the conclusion. The assumption is an unstated premise that helps the conclusion hold. There are two types of assumption: defender and supporter. If you're interested, read Power Score CR bible. it really helps.

Analyze the question.
Premise: council members in small towns are intimately acquainted with the public they serve
Conclusion: their job are more difficult than those of city council members in large cities.

Because there's a gap between conclusion and premise, the assumption must be supporter that can link the conclusion and the premise and make the conclusion hold. Structure here is: X are acquainted with public, so X's job is more difficult than Y's. There is a gap between "acquainted" and "difficult". Why "acquainted with public" is more difficult? Because in order to acquaint with public, city council member must work directly with them. It also means council members in large cities do NOT have to work directly with public. Please see "why E is wrong" below, you will see how pivotal this assumption is.

A says: Working directly with members of the public is the one of the most challenging aspects of serving on a city council - CORRECT.

Why E is wrong.
E says: City council members in large cities rarely engage the public directly. What does it mean? It means city council members in large cities also have to work directly with public, but not so often as council members in small towns do. More clearly, it means the difficult level of job between council member in small towns and council member in large cities is THE SAME, because they do the same tasks. The only difference is HOW OFTEN they work directly with public. Hence, we cannot say which job is more difficult, we can only conclude who work directly with public more often than other.

I hope my answer could help you a little bit.

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Most conspicuous link between the conclusion and assumption in option A can be found with the keywords "difficult" (in conclusion) and "challenging" (in option A).

I picked A.option a fulfills the gap.......

I agrre with you. Totally.

The problem with E is that it adresses hal of the story. If we have P - A - C.......E stays more than A towards C. Instead A stays perfectly in the middle between P and C. you know what I mean ??



However rock look at what Ian Stewart pointed out before It's crucial

Yup, i think i get you option A is the assumption that fills the gap bewtween the P and the C whereas E is like what u said would stay more than A toward C if we had P-A-C ; i don't think i read what Ian Stewart said but i'll give it a look right now

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