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Re: In the past, the railroads in Ostronia were run as regional monopolies
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20 Dec 2021, 05:09
From Powerscore and Manhattan forums:
(A) is a hypothetical "what if?" about which we have no idea.
(B) is too strong, though had it said "a few companies had not taken the needs and desires of their customers into account" instead of "few had taken the needs and desires into account" that would have changed the meaning and made it incorrect. As is, it's too strong.
(C) is possibly true, but not something we can prove. Maybe they could collect donations from the Red Cross to help cover the losses!
(D) is unsupported. The railroads are operating at a loss, but that doesn't mean that they are no more efficient than they were.
If railroad companies have survived while having little regard for the desires of their customers, surely some companies have survived while having little regard for the desires of their customers. This is just a particular case of what's known as existential generalization: if I am under 40 years old, then surely someone is under 40 years old; if Harvard Law School allows applicants to submit GRE scores, then surely some law school allows applicants to submit GRE scores; and generally, if a particular thing has a particular quality, then there is some thing in existence which has that quality.
That means that answer choice (E) is less specific than we can infer, but that's not a problem - being more specific that we can properly infer would be a problem. E is correct