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Recently, Smith City replaced all paper-towel dispensers in lavatories of city buildings with electric hand dryers. The city estimates that in about fifteen years the amount that would otherwise have been spent on the purchase and disposal of paper towels would begin to exceed the cost of purchasing, installing, and operating the electric dryers. Therefore, despite high initial costs, replacing paper towels with electric hand dryers will be to the city's long-term economic advantage.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A The costs of repairing electric hand driers will be the same fifteen years from now as it is today.
B Almost every business in Smith City that has replaced the paper towel dispensers with electric hand dryers has found the replacement to be to its long-term economic advantage.
C The city will not, within ten years, have to replace most of the recently installed electric hand dryers with new dryers.
D The number of electric hand dryers recently installed in Smith City is not significantly greater than the number of paper towel dispensers removed.
E The initial costs involved installing paper towel dispensers is less than that of installing electric hand dryers.­

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Recently, Smith City replaced all paper-towel dispensers in lavatories of city buildings with electric hand dryers. The city estimates that in about fifteen years the amount that would otherwise have been spent on the purchase and disposal of paper towels would begin to exceed the cost of purchasing, installing, and operating the electric dryers. Therefore, despite high initial costs, replacing paper towels with electric hand dryers will be to the city's long-term economic advantage.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A The costs of repairing electric hand driers will be the same fifteen years from now as it is today.
B Almost every business in Smith City that has replaced the paper towel dispensers with electric hand dryers has found the replacement to be to its long-term economic advantage.
C The city will not, within ten years, have to replace most of the recently installed electric hand dryers with new dryers.
D The number of electric hand dryers recently installed in Smith City is not significantly greater than the number of paper towel dispensers removed.
E The initial costs involved installing paper towel dispensers is less than that of installing electric hand dryers.­
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