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The city council has announced that it will now increase the city's re Updated on: 22 Sep 2021, 07:11
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The city council has announced that it will now increase the city's revenue and thus improve the quality of life in the city. The plan is to enforce the parking regulations in the main square and to use part of the revenue from the fines to construct a new municipal parking lot in which people can park without time limits or fees.

The city council’s plan rests in the assumption that


A. fines collected from illegal parking in the square will be sufficient to finance construction of the new lot
B. the new municipal parking lot would cause an eventual loss of revenue for the city, since the city council does not plan to charge for its use
C. there is no legal parking available in the square
D. the revenue generated by the collection of the parking fines must be used to improve the quality of life in the city
E. the new municipal parking lot is the most effective use of the funds generated by the collecting of fines in the square
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The city council has announced that it will now increase the city's re 25 Sep 2021, 21:30
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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?
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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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The city council has announced that it will now increase the city's revenue and thus improve the quality of life in the city. The plan is to enforce the parking regulations in the main square and to use part of the revenue from the fines to construct a new municipal parking lot in which people can park without time limits or fees.

The city council’s plan rests in the assumption that


A. fines collected from illegal parking in the square will be sufficient to finance construction of the new lot
B. the new municipal parking lot would cause an eventual loss of revenue for the city, since the city council does not plan to charge for its use
C. there is no legal parking available in the square
D. the revenue generated by the collection of the parking fines must be used to improve the quality of life in the city
E. the new municipal parking lot is the most effective use of the funds generated by the collecting of fines in the square
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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:
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...use part of the revenue from the fines to construct a new municipal parking lot...
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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.

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Also, for any city, if there is legal parking available in the square then it makes sense to charge for illegal parking.
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I don't understand how this statement is relevant to the question.

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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.
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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.

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Also I didn't understand how C is not a possible answer
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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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Qstem says PART of money generated from the fines would be used for the new parking lot. so that means if we negate A then we get the statement that says - funds are not sufficient but qstem says fines won't be used for the whole budget. The part of cost of new parking lot will be from the fines. so negation does not break the conclusion
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The city council has announced that it will now increase the city's revenue and thus improve the quality of life in the city. The plan is to enforce the parking regulations in the main square and to use part of the revenue from the fines to construct a new municipal parking lot in which people can park without time limits or fees.

The city council’s plan rests in the assumption that


A. fines collected from illegal parking in the square will be sufficient to finance construction of the new lot
B. the new municipal parking lot would cause an eventual loss of revenue for the city, since the city council does not plan to charge for its use
C. there is no legal parking available in the square
D. the revenue generated by the collection of the parking fines must be used to improve the quality of life in the city
E. the new municipal parking lot is the most effective use of the funds generated by the collecting of fines in the square

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.

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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.
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Qstem says PART of money generated from the fines would be used for the new parking lot. so that means if we negate A then we get the statement that says - funds are not sufficient but qstem says fines won't be used for the whole budget. The part of cost of new parking lot will be from the fines. so negation does not break the conclusion
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The statement in red does not accurately reflect what the passage says.
The argument does not state that PART OF THE COST of the lot will come from the fines.
It says the reverse -- that PART OF THE REVENUE FROM THE FINES [will be used] to construct a new municipal parking lot.

The negation of the OA indicates that this revenue will be insufficient to construct the lot, weakening the conclusion that the plan will achieve the intended goal.
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A. fines collected from illegal parking in the square will be sufficient to finance construction of the new lot.

Explanation:
The city council’s plan is based on the idea of enforcing parking regulations in the main square to increase revenue. Part of this revenue will then be allocated toward building a new parking lot. For this plan to be viable, a key underlying assumption is that the fines collected from illegal parking will generate enough revenue to cover the costs associated with constructing the new lot.

Let’s analyze the other options:

B implies that the new parking lot will reduce future revenue since it will be free to use. However, this doesn’t directly affect the assumption about funding the construction.

C suggests that there’s no legal parking in the square, but this is irrelevant to the assumption needed for funding the lot.

D discusses a potential restriction on using the revenue, but there is no indication that this restriction exists.

E asserts that the parking lot is the most effective use of the funds, which doesn’t impact the plan's feasibility.

Thus, A is the best choice, as it addresses the necessary assumption that the fines collected will indeed cover the cost of building the parking lot.
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