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The most effective restraint for rear-seat automobile passengers in an accident is a shoulder-and-lap belt. Use of a lap belt alone can lead to injuries in some kinds of accidents.

To determine whether it would be safer, in an automobile that has only lap belts in the rear seat, for a rear-seat passenger to fasten the passenger's lap belt, it would be most relevant to know which of the following?

(A) What the probability is of having an accident of any kind
(B) Whether the passenger prefers to ride without a lap belt
(C) Whether lap belts worn by front-seat passengers have caused injuries in accidents of the kinds described
(D) Whether accidents of the kinds described have resulted in injuries to any rear-seat passengers wearing shoulder-and-lap belts
(E) How rear-seat passengers fare without lap belts in the kinds of accidents referred to and in other kinds of accidents

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The most effective restraint for rear-seat automobile 27 Oct 2005, 06:27
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my pick will be (E)
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The most effective restraint for rear-seat automobile Updated on: 27 Oct 2005, 06:59
Originally posted by nero44 on 27 Oct 2005, 06:51.
Last edited by nero44 on 27 Oct 2005, 06:59, edited 1 time in total.
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Argument: shoulder-and-lap belts for rear-seat passengers are safer because in some kinds of accidents a lap belt only can lead to injuries.

To see whether this is true, it is best to compare the occurence of these "some kinds of accidents" using shoulder-and-lap belts and lap only belts.

A)B)C) clearly out of scope

It is useless to see what happens to passengers wearing no seat belt at all, when tryin to evaluate wether shoulder-and-lap or lap only is better.
E) out

D) stays...

:EDIT:

I should read the question before answering...
clearly E... :oops:
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The most effective restraint for rear-seat automobile 27 Oct 2005, 06:52
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go E go..
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The most effective restraint for rear-seat automobile 27 Oct 2005, 15:44
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between D and E I will pick E.
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The most effective restraint for rear-seat automobile 28 Oct 2005, 03:47
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Thanks for the discussion.

Tha OA is, as everybody already knows, E.


I got this question wrong since I didn't know that the word "fare" could mean "travel"...
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My vote Goes to E!
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Late, but E.

D cannot be right because the evidence is not comparing the safety of lap belts to shoulder harness belts, rather to not wearing a lap belt at all.
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The same as everyone, I go for E. All the others choices are out of scope.
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E is good.

D does not provide us with any answer as to the efficacy of the lap-belt. Even if there has been success in avoiding fatalities while wearing shoulder & lap belt, such data give no clue for the usefulness of the lap belt.



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