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Rather than bringing cash to school to pay for food expenses, Kindergrade School children will now use electronic cards that record students’ purchases so that parents can later be billed. The objective of this new system is to provide children with cash alternatives that cannot profitably be stolen. To ensure that the cards are worthless to thieves, each card will bear its owner’s picture, so staff at cafeteria checkouts can easily identify stolen cards.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously undermine the ability of the card system to achieve its goal?
A. As a result of the cards’ introduction, the number of students who purchase food from school cafeterias is expected to increase.
B. The replacement of cash with the electronic cards will not allow any reductions in staffing for the checkouts at the schools’ cafeterias.
C. Staff at the cafeteria checkouts know by name many of the students who regularly use the cafeteria, and the cards will bear the owner’s name as well as his or her picture.
D. The cost to the school system of issuing the cards and installing the checkout machines to read them will be covered by the savings arising from no longer needing to handle cash.
E. The companies operating vending machines in the schools are adapting their machines so that the electronic cards can be used for purchases.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously undermine the ability of the card system to achieve its goal?
A. As a result of the cards’ introduction, the number of students who purchase food from school cafeterias is expected to increase.
B. The replacement of cash with the electronic cards will not allow any reductions in staffing for the checkouts at the schools’ cafeterias.
C. Staff at the cafeteria checkouts know by name many of the students who regularly use the cafeteria, and the cards will bear the owner’s name as well as his or her picture.
D. The cost to the school system of issuing the cards and installing the checkout machines to read them will be covered by the savings arising from no longer needing to handle cash.
E. The companies operating vending machines in the schools are adapting their machines so that the electronic cards can be used for purchases.
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Conclusion: The objective of this new system is to provide children with cash alternatives that cannot profitably be stolen.
Question: Weaken the conclusion.
Choice E: If the vending machine change its system to work with the new card and nobody is at the vending machine to check the photo of the students, the cards can be stolen and used profitably.
Question: Weaken the conclusion.
Choice E: If the vending machine change its system to work with the new card and nobody is at the vending machine to check the photo of the students, the cards can be stolen and used profitably.
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Rather than bringing cash to school to pay for food expenses, Kindergrade School children will now use electronic cards that record students’ purchases so that parents can later be billed. The objective of this new system is to provide children with cash alternatives that cannot profitably be stolen. To ensure that the cards are worthless to thieves, each card will bear its owner’s picture, so staff at cafeteria checkouts can easily identify stolen cards.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously undermine the ability of the card system to achieve its goal?
A. As a result of the cards’ introduction, the number of students who purchase food from school cafeterias is expected to increase.
B. The replacement of cash with the electronic cards will not allow any reductions in staffing for the checkouts at the schools’ cafeterias.
C. Staff at the cafeteria checkouts know by name many of the students who regularly use the cafeteria, and the cards will bear the owner’s name as well as his or her picture.
D. The cost to the school system of issuing the cards and installing the checkout machines to read them will be covered by the savings arising from no longer needing to handle cash.
E. The companies operating vending machines in the schools are adapting their machines so that the electronic cards can be used for purchases.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously undermine the ability of the card system to achieve its goal?
A. As a result of the cards’ introduction, the number of students who purchase food from school cafeterias is expected to increase.
B. The replacement of cash with the electronic cards will not allow any reductions in staffing for the checkouts at the schools’ cafeterias.
C. Staff at the cafeteria checkouts know by name many of the students who regularly use the cafeteria, and the cards will bear the owner’s name as well as his or her picture.
D. The cost to the school system of issuing the cards and installing the checkout machines to read them will be covered by the savings arising from no longer needing to handle cash.
E. The companies operating vending machines in the schools are adapting their machines so that the electronic cards can be used for purchases.
I don't like the OA as E but I guess there is no other option that actually hurts the argument. Specially option C.
Option C, in my opinion, rather strengthens the argument if anything. If the cashier knows the name or can identify individual then that will lead to less fraud; However I feel second half is irrelevant.
Option E at first might seem irrelevant but when you think of it machine can validate the card but nowhere it is mention that vending machine will be able to compare photo of the individual holding the card photo of the person buying the item. Hence E is the right answer. You can also think that there will be nobody at the vending machine to verify the ID because well that is the whole purpose of vending machine :P
I like this question
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