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Opponents of allowing triple-trailer trucks to use the national highway system are wrong in claiming that these trucks are more dangerous than other commercial vehicles. In the western part of the country, in areas where triple-trailers are now permitted on some highways, for these vehicles the rate of road accident fatalities per mile of travel is lower than the national rate for other types of commercial vehicles. Clearly, triple-trailers are safer than other commercial vehicles.
Which one of the following, if true, most substantially weakens the argument?
(A) It takes two smaller semitrailers to haul as much weight as a single triple-trailer can.
(B) Highways in the sparsely populated West are much less heavily traveled and consequently are far safer than highways in the national system as a whole.
(C) Opponents of the triple-trailers also once opposed the shorter twin-trailers, which are now common on the nation’s highways.
(D) In areas where the triple-trailers are permitted, drivers need a special license to operate them.
(E) For triple-trailers the rate of road accident fatalities per mile of travel was higher last year than in the two previous years.
10 Apr 2020, 04:52
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Conclusion - Triple trailer trucks are safer than any commercial vehicle.
A - Complete irrelevant.
B - Yes this weakens the argument significantly. Yes author was only looking at Western part which was safer to drive on anyways. Therefore this cannot be extrapolated to the entire country.
C - Irrelevant.
D - Irrelevant.
E - This is not related to the conclusion. Hence we cannot use it to weaken the argument.
A - Complete irrelevant.
B - Yes this weakens the argument significantly. Yes author was only looking at Western part which was safer to drive on anyways. Therefore this cannot be extrapolated to the entire country.
C - Irrelevant.
D - Irrelevant.
E - This is not related to the conclusion. Hence we cannot use it to weaken the argument.
10 Apr 2020, 19:46
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Ans:B.
Statement makes assumption that what is correct for west is also correct for the national highway.
Conclusion also assumes that there are no other reason to fatalities on national highways as it is correctly revealed in option B. The option B is going to weaken the argument.
A: out of context
B: correctly points flaw in argument
C: irrelevant in this case
D:it is not about licence. Even if licence play a role, it would need even better reason. It could have been good argument when licence talks about skills of drivers and their special driving licence.
E: previous data. I am not sure this makes much of sense here.
My Answer is B.
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Statement makes assumption that what is correct for west is also correct for the national highway.
Conclusion also assumes that there are no other reason to fatalities on national highways as it is correctly revealed in option B. The option B is going to weaken the argument.
A: out of context
B: correctly points flaw in argument
C: irrelevant in this case
D:it is not about licence. Even if licence play a role, it would need even better reason. It could have been good argument when licence talks about skills of drivers and their special driving licence.
E: previous data. I am not sure this makes much of sense here.
My Answer is B.
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