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Can't we assume that if part of the funding is from fines from proposed regulation, remaining will be filled by City's treasury? If yes, then Option A (OA) may not be correct.
Also, for any city, if there is legal parking available in the square then it makes sense to charge for illegal parking.
Can I request Bunuel to post official explanation?

In this question we are given that the aim is to improve quality of life.
Then we are given that we will build a parking lot.
So shouldn't there be an option that says how building a lot will improve the life.
Also I didn't understand how C is not a possible answer

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To improve the city's quality of life, the council has come up with the following plan and goal:

Plan:
Enforce parking regulations in the main square
Goal:
Use revenue from the fines to construct a new municipal parking lot in which people can park without time limits or fees

When the correct answer is negated, the plan will not achieve its goal.

A, negated:
Fines collected from illegal parking in the square will not be sufficient to finance construction of the new lot.
Here, the collected fines will be insufficient to construct the new lot, with the result that the plan will not achieve its goal.
Since the negation of A prevents the plan from achieving its goal, A is an ASSUMPTION: a statement that MUST BE TRUE for the plan to achieve its goal.



The other options, negated:

B. The new municipal parking lot would not cause an eventual loss of revenue for the city.
C. There is at least one legal parking spot available in the square.
D. The revenue generated by the collection of the parking fines does not have to be used to improve the quality of life in the city.
E. The new municipal parking lot is not the most effective use of the funds generated by the collecting of fines in the square.

None of these negations prevents the plan from achieving its goal.

We aren't supposed to assume anything!
The question is asking what the COUNCIL has assumed.

This part of the argument tells us that Answer A is one of the assumptions that the council has made:If the council plans to use PART of the revenue from fines to construct the new parking lot, then the revenue from the fines HAS to be sufficient.

BTW, the council has made many assumptions in formulating this plan. Answer A is just one of them.

I don't understand how this statement is relevant to the question.

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No, there need not be such an option.
The council has certainly assumed that the parking lot will improve quality of life. It has also made many other assumptions.
The answer to the question will be ONE of the assumptions. The answer does not (and cannot) mention all possible assumptions.


The argument does not imply or require that there is no legal parking. There may already be legal parking in the city.
What the plan assumes is that the current legal parking is insufficient or inadequate in some way.

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