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City Financial Manager: While the city budget for children’s programs 26 Aug 2021, 04:10
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Hi all - Can someone please confirm why E is wrong. I understood D, but having a hard time in rejecting E
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City Financial Manager: While the city budget for children’s programs continues to rise, children make up a markedly smaller percentage of our population compared to ten and twenty years ago. Given that fact, fewer programs for children are necessary and we can consequently cut expenditures for such programs.

Which of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
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(A) Without budget cuts, the city will be unable to maintain its current level of services.
They just want to reduce the budget that doesn't mean they are low on budget that's an oversimplification

(B) The city’s population has not declined sharply over the past two decades.
It might have declined or increased where are more concerned about the composition than total change

(C) Children’s programs are an important factor in the decisions of families that consider moving to the city.
This is thoroughly out of context and doesn't imoact the passage the slightest therefore out

(D) There has not been a significant increase in the number of adults living in the city.
If the adult population increases significantly then the child population will be drastically affected therefore the assumption is valid therefore let us hang on to it

(E) Many of the children’s programs in the city are underutilized by the current population.
This doesn't imoact the passage the slightest therefore out

Therefore IMO D
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City Financial Manager: While the city budget for children’s programs 26 Aug 2021, 22:38
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Hi all - Can someone please confirm why E is wrong. I understood D, but having a hard time in rejecting E
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E states that the funds for the children were underutilized , then it makes sense that this is the reason that they are cutting down the cost , this is a high quality trap answer that you need to avoid all costs even though it provides a valid explanation , we should be always have the stem of the question insight which has never stated anything about the funds other than it's going to be reduced therefore we cannot assume this happens the underutlisation may or may not have occured ,

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City Financial Manager: While the city budget for children’s programs continues to rise, children make up a markedly smaller percentage of our population compared to ten and twenty years ago. Given that fact, fewer programs for children are necessary and we can consequently cut expenditures for such programs.

Which of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

(A) Without budget cuts, the city will be unable to maintain its current level of services.

(B) The city’s population has not declined sharply over the past two decades.

(C) Children’s programs are an important factor in the decisions of families that consider moving to the city.

(D) There has not been a significant increase in the number of adults living in the city.

(E) Many of the children’s programs in the city are underutilized by the current population.
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I Apologize beforehand if this offends anyone, but it's just one fun way of looking at things 😁

The Argument given is that, since the children make up a smaller percentage of our population compared to ten and twenty years ago, hence we should reduce the number of children related programs and hence cut down budget expenditure on such programs.

Now, look at Option 'D' and negate it.
negation D:- There has been a significant increase in the number of adults living in the city.

-> what this means is that, since there has been an increase in number of adults, these adults will fornicate and hence will produce more children, thereby increasing the number of children and consequently needing more of those children programs which the manager is talking about cutting down, and hence weakening his conclusion that " fewer programs for children are necessary and we can consequently cut expenditures for such programs. "
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