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Notes: Residents' complaint: Air pollution caused by tourist ATVs. New law requires all ATV operators in the area to use e-ATVs. e-ATVs do not produce emissions.
Friction: Air pollution being attributed to gasoline fueled ATVs.
(A) The relatively high weights of electric ATVs do not cause them to cause more damage to local ecosystems than gasoline-powered ATVs. -- Residents only care about air pollution.
(B) Few of the residents of the natural area will continue to use gasoline-powered ATVs after the new law goes into effect. --Residents are only concerned about tourists using ATVs
(C) ATVs used on trails do not kick up fine dust that remains airborne for relatively long periods of time. -- Addresses the friction. Pollution problem could still exist for residents due to tourists' ATV use.
(D) The vehicles that tourists use to travel to the natural area produce less pollution than the ATVs they ride once there. --Adds nothing to the friction.
(E) The process of mining the minerals used in production of the batteries in electric ATVs does not result in large amounts of air pollution. --Requires another assumption to be made (that this mine is in this nature trail) so, out of scope.
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Journalist: Residents of a natural area popular with tourists have long complained about the air pollution caused by tourists’ use of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) on local trails. This problem will soon be solved, however, because of a new law requiring that all area tour companies cease using gasoline-powered ATVs and use only electric ones. Whereas a gasoline-powered ATV can emit as much air pollution as multiple cars, electric ATVs produce no emissions.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the journalist’s reasoning relies?

(A) The relatively high weights of electric ATVs do not cause them to cause more damage to local ecosystems than gasoline-powered ATVs.
(B) Few of the residents of the natural area will continue to use gasoline-powered ATVs after the new law goes into effect.
(C) ATVs used on trails do not kick up fine dust that remains airborne for relatively long periods of time.
(D) The vehicles that tourists use to travel to the natural area produce less pollution than the ATVs they ride once there.
(E) The process of mining the minerals used in production of the batteries in electric ATVs does not result in large amounts of air pollution.

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