smashzone wrote:
If a person chooses to walk rather than drive, there is one less vehicle emitting pollution into the air than there would be otherwise. Therefore if people would walk whenever it is feasible for them to do so, then pollution will be greatly reduced.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
A) Cutting down on pollution can be achieved in a variety of ways.
B) Taking public transportation rather than driving is not always feasible.
C) Walking is the only feasible alternative to driving that results in a reduction in pollution.
D) There are people who never drive but who often walk.
E) People sometimes drive when it is feasible to walk instead.
Ans ExpHere the conclusion:- then pollution will be greatly reduced so in an assumption question we should always support the conclusion so we should prove that the pollution would be decreases if which of the following is done here i use Negation technique for each option
a. Cutting down on pollution can
not be achieved in a variety of ways. so this statement is showing that pollution cannot be reduced which is quite opposite to the conclusion so eliminate it
b.Taking public transportation rather than driving is always feasible.i negated this choice by eliminating
not so by negating this option states that taking public transportation system rather than driving is feasible so if people follow this then pollution get reduced but we don't know that people are following this so we cannot conclude that pollution reduces so eliminate this option.
c. Walking is the
not only feasible alternative to driving that results in a reduction in pollution. so this statement after negation states that there are another methods to reduce pollution so by this we cannot definitely say that pollution can be reduced as we don't know that other ways are most effective ways to reduce pollution that walking so eliminate this.
d.There are people who never drive but who often
don't walk so by negating this option says that some people will never drive and never walk so the pollution from such people will neither increase or decrease, so eliminate this option.
e.People sometimes
don't drive when it is feasible to walk instead, so by negation this option states that when people have chance of walking they walk they use vehicle only when walking is not feasible so by such people the pollution can be reduced to some extent so which supports the conclusion so the Answer option is e.
Hope it's clear.