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Proposed new health regulations for Partridge County public schools would require that students not be allowed to purchase soft drinks on school grounds. In consequence, the schools would have to remove approximately 25 of the 34 soft drink machines from the 6 schools in the district. The schools' budgets depend in part on the revenue generated by the placement of these machines, most of which are located in areas students can access. Therefore, the proposed health regulations, if enacted, will reduce the revenue available for the schools' budgets.
The argument relies on which of the following assumptions?
A. There are no schools in which soda machines are located only in locations students cannot access.
B. Few, if any, of the students who drink soft drinks buy them at school.
C. If the planned health regulations are enacted, the reduction in soft drink machines will not result mainly from a reduction in the number of students who spend relatively little on soft drinks.
D. Barring soft drink machines from student-accessible areas of schools is the only way to align with statewide health recommendations on which future funding depends.
E. The removed soft drink machines would not be replaced with equally profitable candy machines
The argument relies on which of the following assumptions?
A. There are no schools in which soda machines are located only in locations students cannot access.
B. Few, if any, of the students who drink soft drinks buy them at school.
C. If the planned health regulations are enacted, the reduction in soft drink machines will not result mainly from a reduction in the number of students who spend relatively little on soft drinks.
D. Barring soft drink machines from student-accessible areas of schools is the only way to align with statewide health recommendations on which future funding depends.
E. The removed soft drink machines would not be replaced with equally profitable candy machines
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That stem could be half as long and convey the same information. Naturally if they're claiming they will lose money by removing the drink machines, they're assuming they won't be making money in some other way to compensate, so the answer is E.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
When a question asks for an assumption, we should think about the conclusion (the schools will lose revenue) and pick a detail the passage has overlooked or glossed over that would make that conclusion reasonable. Choice (A) describes a situation that would seem to increase the amount of the lost revenue rather than demonstrate that the schools will lose revenue.
Choice (B) would be more useful in weakening the conclusion, but that's not what we've been asked to do for this question.
The situation described in (C) is simply too convoluted to be a basic assumption necessary for the conclusion.
Though (D) is relevant to the schools' budgets, it is relevant to future budgets, which isn't something the conclusion even discusses, let alone relies upon. The idea that the vending machines might dispense other options, as described in
(E), is something the passage needs in order to come to its conclusion. If healthier options were to be offered, the school would still get funds from the vending machines.
The correct answer choice is E
When a question asks for an assumption, we should think about the conclusion (the schools will lose revenue) and pick a detail the passage has overlooked or glossed over that would make that conclusion reasonable. Choice (A) describes a situation that would seem to increase the amount of the lost revenue rather than demonstrate that the schools will lose revenue.
Choice (B) would be more useful in weakening the conclusion, but that's not what we've been asked to do for this question.
The situation described in (C) is simply too convoluted to be a basic assumption necessary for the conclusion.
Though (D) is relevant to the schools' budgets, it is relevant to future budgets, which isn't something the conclusion even discusses, let alone relies upon. The idea that the vending machines might dispense other options, as described in
(E), is something the passage needs in order to come to its conclusion. If healthier options were to be offered, the school would still get funds from the vending machines.
The correct answer choice is E
