QUESTION TEXT: Mayor: Citing the severity of the city's winters, the city road…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: We can’t afford the commissioner’s plan.
REASONING: Rubberized asphalt will save us money on maintenance.
But rubberized asphalt is more expensive to install, and we have no room to increase the road building and maintenance budget.
ANALYSIS: The mayor assumes we can’t save money elsewhere in the budget to afford rubberized asphalt. Maybe we can use the money we’ll save on snow removal.
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- There might be other advantages, but those advantages might not make it more affordable to install rubberized asphalt.
- Most winters vary in severity. I’m not sure how variation would make it affordable to install rubberized asphalt.
- The commission proposed rubberized asphalt. No one is proposing any other kind of rubberized material.
- CORRECT. If this is false, then we could afford to install rubberized asphalt, using the savings from the maintenance budget.
- If the techniques are the least expensive possible, then the argument is stronger. There’s no room for savings by using cheaper techniques.
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