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On a certain day, nine scheduled flights on Swift Airlines were canceled. Ordinarily, a cancellation is due to mechanical problems with the airplane scheduled for a certain flight. However, since it is unlikely that Swift would have the mechanical problems with more than one or two scheduled flights on a single day, some of the nine cancellations were probably due to something else.

The argument depends on which one of the following assumptions?

A. More than one or two airplanes were scheduled for the nine canceled flights.

B. Swift Airlines has fewer mechanical problems than do other airlines of the same size.

C. Each of the canceled flights would have been longer than the average flight on Swift Airlines.

D. Swift Airlines had never before canceled more than one or two scheduled flights on a single day.
The assumption is A - More than one or two airplanes were scheduled for the nine canceled flights.

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The argument states that mechanical problems typically cause cancellations and that it's unlikely to have more than one or two flights canceled due to mechanical issues on a single day. This implies that if nine flights were canceled, some must have been due to other reasons. This reasoning hinges on the idea that multiple planes were involved in the nine canceled flights, because if only one or two planes were scheduled for all nine flights, it would be possible for mechanical problems with those planes to cause all the cancellations.
Therefore, the argument assumes there were more than one or two airplanes involved.

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More than schedule, I think option A is factoring in that more than 1-2 airplanes were scheduled, meaning simply those 1-2 with manufacturing troubles weren't supposed to fly all 9 routes. Because if they were, then all the cancellations are due to the same reason, and not because of 'something else' as mentioned in the question
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