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Citizen: Our city currently has an extensive system of suggestion boxes through which citizens can anonymously air their grievances and suggest solutions. However, the mayor intends to remove the suggestion boxes, under the rationale that most people now have email and can send such grievances to the city offices via email. However, the poorest parts of the city, which house the most disaffected residents, have few internet-equipped households, so some of the suggestion boxes are still needed.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the citizen’s argument?
A. The cost to the city of maintaining the suggestion boxes is more than three million dollars annually.
B. On average, almost twenty percent of the internet connections in the city are out of order at any given time.
C. The city offices get less information from the suggestion boxes than they do from emails.
D. The city offices are located much closer to the affluent parts of the city than to the poorest parts of the city.
E. Welfare checks are routinely conducted in the poorest parts of the city by officers who relay the residents’ grievances to the city offices.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the citizen’s argument?
A. The cost to the city of maintaining the suggestion boxes is more than three million dollars annually.
B. On average, almost twenty percent of the internet connections in the city are out of order at any given time.
C. The city offices get less information from the suggestion boxes than they do from emails.
D. The city offices are located much closer to the affluent parts of the city than to the poorest parts of the city.
E. Welfare checks are routinely conducted in the poorest parts of the city by officers who relay the residents’ grievances to the city offices.
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A. Maintaining the city’s physical suggestion box system costs the city government nearly $3 million annually.
A high cost does not address the citizen’s main concern. The argument is about whether poor residents will lose their only practical way to communicate grievances, not whether the system is expensive.
B. Nearly one-fifth of all internet connections in the city fail at least once per month.
This actually strengthens the citizen’s argument. If internet access is unreliable even for people who already have connections, then depending entirely on email becomes even less practical, making physical suggestion boxes more necessary.
C. Email communication allows city offices to sort, organize, and respond to citizen complaints much more efficiently than physical suggestion boxes do.
The citizen is not arguing that suggestion boxes are more efficient than email. The concern is that the poorest residents may have no internet access at all, leaving them without any communication channel if the boxes are removed. Irrelevant
D. Most city offices are located far from the neighborhoods where the city’s poorest residents live.
This is irrelevant or slightly strengthens the citizen’s position. If poor residents live far away from city offices, it becomes even harder for them to communicate complaints in person once local suggestion boxes disappear.
E. Welfare checks are routinely conducted in the poorest parts of the city by officers who relay the residents’ grievances to the city offices.
Correct answer.
This directly weakens the citizen’s core assumption that removing suggestion boxes would leave poor residents without any way to communicate grievances.
If officers already visit these neighborhoods regularly and carry residents’ complaints back to the city offices, then poor residents still retain an alternative communication channel even after the suggestion boxes are removed.
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A high cost does not address the citizen’s main concern. The argument is about whether poor residents will lose their only practical way to communicate grievances, not whether the system is expensive.
B. Nearly one-fifth of all internet connections in the city fail at least once per month.
This actually strengthens the citizen’s argument. If internet access is unreliable even for people who already have connections, then depending entirely on email becomes even less practical, making physical suggestion boxes more necessary.
C. Email communication allows city offices to sort, organize, and respond to citizen complaints much more efficiently than physical suggestion boxes do.
The citizen is not arguing that suggestion boxes are more efficient than email. The concern is that the poorest residents may have no internet access at all, leaving them without any communication channel if the boxes are removed. Irrelevant
D. Most city offices are located far from the neighborhoods where the city’s poorest residents live.
This is irrelevant or slightly strengthens the citizen’s position. If poor residents live far away from city offices, it becomes even harder for them to communicate complaints in person once local suggestion boxes disappear.
E. Welfare checks are routinely conducted in the poorest parts of the city by officers who relay the residents’ grievances to the city offices.
Correct answer.
This directly weakens the citizen’s core assumption that removing suggestion boxes would leave poor residents without any way to communicate grievances.
If officers already visit these neighborhoods regularly and carry residents’ complaints back to the city offices, then poor residents still retain an alternative communication channel even after the suggestion boxes are removed.
Ans E
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city has extensive system of suggestion boxes. citizens use that to air their grievances and suggest solutions.
but mayor wants to remove them because he felt most people have email and can send such messages to city via email.
however, poorest part of city have few internet equipped households.
conclusion- some of suggestion boxes are still needed.
A. The cost to the city of maintaining the suggestion boxes is more than three million dollars annually.
but real concern is poor people in some parts will be left without boxes if those are removed. although this sounds valid but it doesnt address the real problem. so reject.
B. On average, almost twenty percent of the internet connections in the city are out of order at any given time.
if thats the case then boxes are better in such scenario. so it doesnt weaken the argument at all. reject.
C. The city offices get less information from the suggestion boxes than they do from emails.
as long as they are getting info from both medium, its alright. so not much impact here. reject.
D. The city offices are located much closer to the affluent parts of the city than to the poorest parts of the city.
but nobody cares as long as offices do their job. so reject.
E. Welfare checks are routinely conducted in the poorest parts of the city by officers who relay the residents’ grievances to the city offices.
that means those poor parts will be taken care of every now and then so their problems will be kept in check. so this does enough to back the plan of using mail and removing box service, keep
ans E
but mayor wants to remove them because he felt most people have email and can send such messages to city via email.
however, poorest part of city have few internet equipped households.
conclusion- some of suggestion boxes are still needed.
A. The cost to the city of maintaining the suggestion boxes is more than three million dollars annually.
but real concern is poor people in some parts will be left without boxes if those are removed. although this sounds valid but it doesnt address the real problem. so reject.
B. On average, almost twenty percent of the internet connections in the city are out of order at any given time.
if thats the case then boxes are better in such scenario. so it doesnt weaken the argument at all. reject.
C. The city offices get less information from the suggestion boxes than they do from emails.
as long as they are getting info from both medium, its alright. so not much impact here. reject.
D. The city offices are located much closer to the affluent parts of the city than to the poorest parts of the city.
but nobody cares as long as offices do their job. so reject.
E. Welfare checks are routinely conducted in the poorest parts of the city by officers who relay the residents’ grievances to the city offices.
that means those poor parts will be taken care of every now and then so their problems will be kept in check. so this does enough to back the plan of using mail and removing box service, keep
ans E
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