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If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 08 Nov 2017, 08:02
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If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park at the current rate, the fragile desert environment that the park seeks to protect will be irreparably harmed. The park's Director has put forth a proposal to charge visitors to the park a fee based on the number of hours spent in the park. This fee will induce tourists to limit their time in the park and thus protect the fragile desert environment.

Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?

    A. Tourists will limit the amount of time they spend in the park by hiking only the shorter trails in the park.
    B. Most tourists will easily be able to pay the fee even if they do not reduce the number of hours that they spend in the park.
    C. The fee will not induce tourists to enter the park early in the morning before the fee collection station has opened and leave only after the fee collection stations has closed for the night.
    D. Protecting the fragile desert environment is an important issue for most visitors to the park.
    E. Tourists who do not wish to pay the fee can visit the nearby Chasmland National Park.
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Originally posted by abansal1805 on 08 Nov 2017, 07:52.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2018, 09:46
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I did not understood how C is the correct answer choice?

Since the argument has stated that tourists will limit the number of hours they spend in the parks if a fee is introduced.So tourists are not likely to pay a high fee if they want to spend greater number of hours in the park or fee is an important factor for the tourists to determine wether they want to spend more hours.Whereas option C introduces additional premise.
Can anyone please explain it?

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Hey, so yeah, the tourists should ideally limit their costs because they wouldn't want to pay more.

But what if people started entering the park before the toll booth opens, and start staying back until the toll booth is closed. If that were a possibility more people would start doing that to avoid paying the fee, and that would defeat the purpose of limiting hours spent by people.

So, if the plan were to be a success, the park authorities/management would have to assume that people won't do this.

C is the only option that presents a situation that the management would have had to assume would not arise for their plan to work.

Look at the other options.

A> Good, we want people to limit their time. An effect, not an assumption.
B> Weakening Statement
D>Maybe, the reason why people are fine with the new policy, but not an assumption
E> New park? Out of scope.

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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   09 Apr 2018, 07:52
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A. Tourists will limit the amount of time they spend in the park by hiking only the shorter trails in the park. Possible answer. But it does not take into consideration that the tourists might increase the time by resting or detailed sightseeing on these short trails.

B. Most tourists will easily be able to pay the fee even if they do not reduce the number of hours that they spend in the park. Assumption out of scope.

C. The fee will not induce tourists to enter the park early in the morning before the fee collection station has opened and leave only after the fee collection stations has closed for the night. Highly probable since the tourists can avoid paying the fee if they do so, thereby defeating the purpose of the new arrangement.

D. Protecting the fragile desert environment is an important issue for most visitors to the park. Assumption is beyond scope.

E. Tourists who do not wish to pay the fee can visit the nearby Chasmland National Park. Out of scope.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   08 Nov 2017, 08:03
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Dear craveyourave,

Thanks for bringing this to attention. The error has been fixed.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2018, 08:19
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As it is the only loophole to the new entry fee policy, and the management would have to assume that that won't happen to believe in the efficacy of their new policy.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2018, 08:20
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As it is the only loophole to the new entry fee policy, and the management would have to assume that that won't happen to believe in the efficacy of their new policy.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2018, 10:42
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If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park at the current rate, the fragile desert environment that the park seeks to protect will be irreparably harmed. The park's Director has put forth a proposal to charge visitors to the park a fee based on the number of hours spent in the park. This fee will induce tourists to limit their time in the park and thus protect the fragile desert environment.

Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?


A. Tourists will limit the amount of time they spend in the park by hiking only the shorter trails in the park.

B. Most tourists will easily be able to pay the fee even if they do not reduce the number of hours that they spend in the park.

C. The fee will not induce tourists to enter the park early in the morning before the fee collection station has opened and leave only after the fee collection stations has closed for the night.

D. Protecting the fragile desert environment is an important issue for most visitors to the park.

E. Tourists who do not wish to pay the fee can visit the nearby Chasmland National Park.

Only C makes sense as assumption.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   08 Nov 2017, 08:00
That’s all good. But where’s the damn question?

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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   09 Apr 2018, 08:58
I think the answer should be C .

Here then conclusion says that the fee will cause tourists to limit time spent in the park . So Ira assuming that they have not found any alternative ways to reduce/ skip the the fee altogether


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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2018, 09:22
I did not understood how C is the correct answer choice?

Since the argument has stated that tourists will limit the number of hours they spend in the parks if a fee is introduced.So tourists are not likely to pay a high fee if they want to spend greater number of hours in the park or fee is an important factor for the tourists to determine wether they want to spend more hours.Whereas option C introduces additional premise.
Can anyone please explain it?

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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   10 Sep 2018, 15:51
To limit their time:

A. Tourists will limit the amount of time they spend in the park by hiking only the shorter trails in the park.
B. Most tourists will easily be able to pay the fee even if they do not reduce the number of hours that they spend in the park.
C. The fee will not induce tourists to enter the park early in the morning before the fee collection station has opened and leave only after the fee collection stations has closed for the night.

For the new policy to work...make sure there's no other way for the tourists to visit the park

D. Protecting the fragile desert environment is an important issue for most visitors to the park.
E. Tourists who do not wish to pay the fee can visit the nearby Chasmland National Park.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   30 Sep 2018, 18:15
Srija221 wrote:
I did not understood how C is the correct answer choice?

Since the argument has stated that tourists will limit the number of hours they spend in the parks if a fee is introduced.So tourists are not likely to pay a high fee if they want to spend greater number of hours in the park or fee is an important factor for the tourists to determine wether they want to spend more hours.Whereas option C introduces additional premise.
Can anyone please explain it?

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Srija221 Opton Aa actually weakens the conclusion by stating one possible reason which may fail the proposal. Whereas, in option C, provides a piece of information which binds the argument.
An assumption is indeed an additional unstated premise.

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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2020, 21:21
Hi..

The park's Director plans to charge the number of hours of stay. So, A can even be an assumption that tourists will have shorter trails to avoid being charged more.

How can the OA be C??
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If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   14 Sep 2020, 03:21
nkme2007 wrote:
Hi..

The park's Director plans to charge the number of hours of stay. So, A can even be an assumption that tourists will have shorter trails to avoid being charged more.

How can the OA be C??


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A states : Tourists will limit the amount of time they spend in the park by hiking only the shorter trails in the park.
the statement means how the tourists will be spending the limited time in the park.
It does not concern . as long as the timing is followed.
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Re: If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park [#permalink] New post   15 Sep 2020, 03:10
abansal1805 wrote:
If tourists continue to visit Bridges National Park at the current rate, the fragile desert environment that the park seeks to protect will be irreparably harmed. The park's Director has put forth a proposal to charge visitors to the park a fee based on the number of hours spent in the park. This fee will induce tourists to limit their time in the park and thus protect the fragile desert environment.

Which of the following is an assumption made in drawing the conclusion above?

    A. Tourists will limit the amount of time they spend in the park by hiking only the shorter trails in the park.
    B. Most tourists will easily be able to pay the fee even if they do not reduce the number of hours that they spend in the park.
    C. The fee will not induce tourists to enter the park early in the morning before the fee collection station has opened and leave only after the fee collection stations has closed for the night.
    D. Protecting the fragile desert environment is an important issue for most visitors to the park.
    E. Tourists who do not wish to pay the fee can visit the nearby Chasmland National Park.


The conclusion is "The fee is effective in reducing tourists' time in the park and thereby protect the environment"

Choice A:The reason why the answer is not A is because it does not really have to be true for the conclusion to be true.
Whether they pay the fee or not, they can reduce the time or they don't need to. The answer choice doesn't explain the effectiveness of the fee on reducing tourists' time.

Choice C: If you negate the answer choice C, then the making people to pay the fee becomes ineffective.
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