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Og11 Cr-9 Mayor : In each of the past five years, the city has cut school funding and each time school officials complained that the cuts would force them to reduce expenditures for essential services. But each time, only expenditures for nonessential services were actually reduced. So school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services. Which of the following , if true, most strongly supports the mayor's conclusion? (A)The city's schools have always provided essential services as efficiently as they have provided non essential services. (B) Sufficient funds are currently available to allow the city's schools to provide some nonessential services. (C) Price estimates quoted to the city's schools for the provision of non essential services have not increased substantially since the most recent school-funding cut. (D) Few influential city administrators support the funding of costly nonessential services in the city's schools. (E) The city's school officials rarely exaggerate the potential impact of the threatened funding cuts. I post this question for asking another thing Do you guys think that the answer choice C can be an assumption for this argument? I am confused b/w assumption and strength  .
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Answer is B.
Mayor's conclusion is - So school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services. Thus cuts can be made from non-essential expenditures. Thus it implies that still there are sufficient funds available for non-essentials services.
Thus Mayor's conclusion is solely based on the fact that there are still sufficient funds for non-essential services which can be cut without affecting essentials services.
OA please. Thanks.
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ans B for the same reason as cited above!
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lys8207 wrote: Og11 Cr-9 Mayor : In each of the past five years, the city has cut school funding and each time school officials complained that the cuts would force them to reduce expenditures for essential services. But each time, only expenditures for nonessential services were actually reduced. So school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services. Which of the following , if true, most strongly supports the mayor's conclusion? (A)The city's schools have always provided essential services as efficiently as they have provided non essential services. (B) Sufficient funds are currently available to allow the city's schools to provide some nonessential services. (C) Price estimates quoted to the city's schools for the provision of non essential services have not increased substantially since the most recent school-funding cut. (D) Few influential city administrators support the funding of costly nonessential services in the city's schools. (E) The city's school officials rarely exaggerate the potential impact of the threatened funding cuts. I post this question for asking another thing Do you guys think that the answer choice C can be an assumption for this argument? I am confused b/w assumption and strength . Answer is B.... For strengthing question.... just concentrate on the Conclusion.... "So school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services." and see which statement can make this conclusion more strong! Even u wld choose B..
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lys8207 wrote: I am confused b/w assumption and strength . PowerScore states that Assumption is an unstated premise. Typically in question stimulus that require you to identify an assumption, premise will discuss about something, but the conclusion will take you to an entirely different arena. There is something stated and there is something totally new that is concluded. An assumption will help you bridge that gap. Strengthen or weaken questions on the other hand will attack the conclusion. Typically they are unstated premises as well, but most often they are additional by nature. Identifying an answer option that goes hand-in-hand with the given premises in the stimulus is very easy to identify, so the test-makers will often try to bring in new or extra information that will have a direct impact on the conclusion, that is what makes the correct answers as additional premises. However, it does not mean that assumptions cannot strengthen. The answer options will be formulated based on the question stem posed, so you need not worry about what is not asked. There is also not sufficient time to ponder over such aspects of the question. Just stay focussed on what is asked and try and eliminate what seems wrong.
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IMO B
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B is the answer. no other option contends.
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