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The municipality of the town of Calabia has allocated 50,000 parking [#permalink] New post   06 Feb 2024, 02:30
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The municipality of the town of Calabia has allocated 50,000 parking spaces to be used by the general public. Cars owned by Calabian residents number 45,000, but every day more than 15,000 vehicles that are not owned by Calabian residents enter the town. It is quite clear that the town will suffer from an acute lack of parking spaces.

Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the argument?

A. Whether the roads in Calabia are wide enough to allow cars to enter the town without causing traffic congestion

B. Whether a sufficient number of Calabians drive their cars out of town during the time when non-Calabian cars enter Calabia

C. Whether Calabian cars parked in the allocated spaces are allowed to be parked there continuously for more than 24 hours

D. Whether non-Calabian car owners are required to pay for parking in the Calabia district

E. Whether a Calabian driving from an allocated parking space to a destination within the town's limits can be considered a common phenomenon


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Re: The municipality of the town of Calabia has allocated 50,000 parking [#permalink] New post   06 Feb 2024, 07:55
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The municipality of the town of Calabia has allocated 50,000 parking spaces to be used by the general public. Cars owned by Calabian residents number 45,000, but every day more than 15,000 vehicles that are not owned by Calabian residents enter the town. It is quite clear that the town will suffer from an acute lack of parking spaces.

Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the argument?

A. Whether the roads in Calabia are wide enough to allow cars to enter the town without causing traffic congestion- irrelevant topic on traffic.

B. Whether a sufficient number of Calabians drive their cars out of town during the time when non-Calabian cars enter Calabia- Correctly evaluate about parking

C. Whether Calabian cars parked in the allocated spaces are allowed to be parked there continuously for more than 24 hours- irrelevant about time metioned

D. Whether non-Calabian car owners are required to pay for parking in the Calabia district- found close to answer but not directly to question

E. Whether a Calabian driving from an allocated parking space to a destination within the town's limits can be considered a common phenomenon - doesn't change the fact that there are more cars than parking spaces in Calabia

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Re: The municipality of the town of Calabia has allocated 50,000 parking [#permalink] New post   06 Feb 2024, 12:05
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­Correct otion should be B

Let's analyse the options to conclusively suggest:
A. We are concerned about lack of room for parking spaces but not traffic congestion. We can say it is slightly out of context.
C. Let's not straight away do calculations for more than 24 hours scenario. We are already suffering from lack of parking space because we have capacity for parking 50,000 cars whereas we are facing 60,000 cars everyday which is much more.
D. Even if the non-residents pay for parking, does the problem of lack of parking space get solved? NO
E. Out of context completely. Why do we have anything to do with the cars' starting point and destination.

B. Only this one is logical. If more than 10,000 Calabian cars go out of the town then the net cars present in Calabia is 50,000 which can fit in the parking spaces.

Hence, correct option should be B­
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Re: The municipality of the town of Calabia has allocated 50,000 parking [#permalink] New post   02 Mar 2024, 23:15
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The municipality of the town of Calabia has allocated 50,000 parking spaces to be used by the general public. Cars owned by Calabian residents number 45,000, but every day more than 15,000 vehicles that are not owned by Calabian residents enter the town. It is quite clear that the town will suffer from an acute lack of parking spaces.

Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the argument?


A. Whether the roads in Calabia are wide enough to allow cars to enter the town without causing traffic congestion

Incorrect.

To solve this Investigation question, first break down the argument. The first two sentences are premises, citing facts. The last sentence begins with the conclusion phrase It is quite clear so it's the argument's conclusion:

    Premise A: Calabia has 50,000 parking spaces for use by the general public
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    Premise B: the residents of Calabia own 45,000 cars but more than 15,000 foreign cars enter the town every day

    Conclusion: Calabia will have major parking problems

    Vital factor: ?

You are required to find the factor which is most crucial to the author's conclusion. The correct answer is a question which could support or weaken the conclusion depending on its answer.

This answer choice does not pose a significant question since it deals with traffic whereas the argument deals with parking alone.


B. Whether a sufficient number of Calabians drive their cars out of town during the time when non-Calabian cars enter Calabia

This answer choice may determine whether Calabia really has a parking problem. If only a few Calabians drive their cars out of town while non-Calabians enter, then there will surely be traffic problems since there are simply not enough spaces. However, if enough Calabian cars (~10,000) are out of town while the cars from outside are in Calabia, then there should not be a parking insufficiency.


C. Whether Calabian cars parked in the allocated spaces are allowed to be parked there continuously for more than 24 hours

Incorrect.

To solve this Investigation question, first break down the argument. The first two sentences are premises, citing facts. The last sentence begins with the conclusion phrase It is quite clear so it's the argument's conclusion:

    Premise A: Calabia has 50,000 parking spaces for use by the general public
    +
    Premise B: the residents of Calabia own 45,000 cars but more than 15,000 foreign cars enter the town every day

    Conclusion: Calabia will have major parking problems

    Vital factor: ?

You are required to find the factor which is most crucial to the author's conclusion. The correct answer is a question which could support or weaken the conclusion depending on its answer.

Determining this fact would make no difference to the argument. The argument focuses on how the commuting behavior of people affects parking, and not on what the law allows/prevents people from doing.


D. Whether non-Calabian car owners are required to pay for parking in the Calabia district

The argument deals with whether Calabia will have parking problems. Although charging for parking may deter non-Calabians from parking, we cannot be sure of this. We do not have enough information to assume that paid parking will not be readily accepted (and the car has to be parked somewhere!).

Besides, we are not supposed to be looking for a solution. We are supposed to find a way to determine whether there is a problem at all.


E. Whether a Calabian driving from an allocated parking space to a destination within the town's limits can be considered a common phenomenon

This would be an irrelevant piece of information. If a Calabian drives from one parking spot to another, then the town's parking status is not changed in any way.
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