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26 Nov 2024, 01:30
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Senate committee member: Public internet usage has increased by more than 100 percent in the last five years, and building more data centers to handle future increases is not feasible. That is why I propose legislating a strict limit on the amount of data any one person can use and implementing that policy nationwide. The senate committee member's proposal assumes which of the following?
A. The data centers that exist cannot be improved to handle future increases in demand.
B. No state within the nation has already implemented a data usage limit.
C. A data usage limit would have a negative impact on the revenues of data-service companies and, therefore, the country's.
D. Private organizations have hardly contributed to the rapid increase in data usage.
E. Individuals are not known for complying with data usage restrictions.
A. The data centers that exist cannot be improved to handle future increases in demand.
B. No state within the nation has already implemented a data usage limit.
C. A data usage limit would have a negative impact on the revenues of data-service companies and, therefore, the country's.
D. Private organizations have hardly contributed to the rapid increase in data usage.
E. Individuals are not known for complying with data usage restrictions.
26 Nov 2024, 20:49
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A. The data centers that exist cannot be improved to handle future increases in demand. (This is our answer. He is assuming that already existing ones cannot be improved therefore talks about not building new ones)
B. No state within the nation has already implemented a data usage limit. (Irrelevant)
C. A data usage limit would have a negative impact on the revenues of data-service companies and, therefore, the country's. (No mentions of economy in passage and we cannot tell as well if it would impact negative or positively)
D. Private organizations have hardly contributed to the rapid increase in data usage. (Irrelevant - no mentions of Private Orgs)
E. Individuals are not known for complying with data usage restrictions. (This is close, but we are not talking about Individuals as MI)
B. No state within the nation has already implemented a data usage limit. (Irrelevant)
C. A data usage limit would have a negative impact on the revenues of data-service companies and, therefore, the country's. (No mentions of economy in passage and we cannot tell as well if it would impact negative or positively)
D. Private organizations have hardly contributed to the rapid increase in data usage. (Irrelevant - no mentions of Private Orgs)
E. Individuals are not known for complying with data usage restrictions. (This is close, but we are not talking about Individuals as MI)
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
For this question, we need to find an assumption that underlies the proposal to legislate people's individual use of data as the best solution to the public's increase in data usage. What we're looking for in an answer choice is a detail that makes the committee member's proposal the best solution.
Choice (A) makes sense: if, as the passage says, we can't make more data centers and we can't expand existing ones, then the only option is to limit the usage of data.
Choice (B) is not our assumption, because it doesn't need to be true for the proposal to be the best plan.
Both (C) and (E) are reasons that the proposal is not the best plan, which means that neither makes sense as our assumption.
Choice (D) has a connection to the problem, but it is only a part of the problem, and the proposal is an effort to address the problem as a whole.
The correct answer is Choice (A).
