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If state residents continue to use water at their current rates, reservoirs will soon be depleted and restrictions will need to be imposed to prevent shortages. Fining households for every gallon used over their allotment will encourage residents to reduce the amount of water they use; this fine will thus help to preserve the state's remaining water resources.
Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?
A. Residents will decrease the amount of water they use by decreasing the number of pets they keep.
B. The water overuse fine will not seriously affect the financial status of most residents, even if their households do not restrict the amount of water they use.
C. The overuse fine will not lead to residents illegally disabling their water meters.
D. The quiet serenity of the state's reservoirs is a major issue for most of the state's residents.
E. Reservoirs outside the state lines could be tapped to provide the state's residents with water.
Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?
A. Residents will decrease the amount of water they use by decreasing the number of pets they keep.
B. The water overuse fine will not seriously affect the financial status of most residents, even if their households do not restrict the amount of water they use.
C. The overuse fine will not lead to residents illegally disabling their water meters.
D. The quiet serenity of the state's reservoirs is a major issue for most of the state's residents.
E. Reservoirs outside the state lines could be tapped to provide the state's residents with water.
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I'm not sure how any answer besides C could even be tempting here, since every other answer is clearly irrelevant. Whenever a policy is proposed, one assumption is that the policy will work. Here the proposal is to limit water usage by fining people for using a lot of water. That will only work if the municipality can successfully measure how much water each person is using, so C is an assumption.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The argument suggests that the overuse fines will work—in other words, that residents will actually reduce their water consumption. They will not find some way to continue using the same amount of water as before. The argument depends, therefore, on residents' not doing anything to get around the restriction.
Choice (C) fits. If residents began to disable their water meters (and, implicitly, continued to use the same amount of water as before), the overuse fine did not actually work.
Choices (A), (B), and (D) introduce extraneous information that doesn't directly relate to the situation: "pets," "the financial status of most residents," and the "quiet serenity" of the reservoirs.
Choice (E) seems to propose an alternative solution to the low water levels, but the solution presented in the question does not assume that there is another way to fix the problem.
The correct answer is Choice (C).
The argument suggests that the overuse fines will work—in other words, that residents will actually reduce their water consumption. They will not find some way to continue using the same amount of water as before. The argument depends, therefore, on residents' not doing anything to get around the restriction.
Choice (C) fits. If residents began to disable their water meters (and, implicitly, continued to use the same amount of water as before), the overuse fine did not actually work.
Choices (A), (B), and (D) introduce extraneous information that doesn't directly relate to the situation: "pets," "the financial status of most residents," and the "quiet serenity" of the reservoirs.
Choice (E) seems to propose an alternative solution to the low water levels, but the solution presented in the question does not assume that there is another way to fix the problem.
The correct answer is Choice (C).
