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by beater » Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:35 pm
In each of the past five years, the city has cut school funding and each time school officials complained that the cuts would force them to reduce expenditures for essential services. But each time, only expenditures for nonessential services were reduced. So school officials can implement further cuts without reducing any expenditures for essential services.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the mayor's conclusions?

A. The city's schools have always provided essential services as efficiently as they have provided nonessestial services.
B. Sufficient funds are currently available to allow the city'd schools to provide some nonessential services.
C. Price estimates quoted to the city's schools for the provision of nonessential services have not increased substantially since the most recent school-funding cut.
D. Few influential city administrators support the funding of costly nonessential services in the city's schools.
E. The city's school officials rarely exaggerate the potential impact of threatened funding cuts.
Last edited by beater on Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Source: — Critical Reasoning |

by Alara533 » Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:42 pm
IMO its B.

btw, where does the passage mention abt Mayor?
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by krisraam » Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:50 pm
IMO B.
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by umaa » Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:32 pm
IMO B.

Sufficient funds are currently available to allow the city'd schools to provide some nonessential services. Its a strengthening question. Insert each stem after the conclusion and see if it strengthen the argument.
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by bec.amit » Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:37 pm
IMO--B:
as each time the funds are cut the school reduces expenditure for non-essential services.Option B strengthens the conclusion as it says that the school still has sufficient funds for non-essen services.
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by beater » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:52 am
OA - B.

Why do you think C is incorrect?
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by 4meonly » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:03 pm
Price estimates quoted to ten city's schools for the provision of nonessential services have not increased substantially since the most recent school-funding cut.
Very narrowed, that's why incorrect
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by beater » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:13 pm
Well, there is a typo in C. It is not TEN, but THE.

It should read..Price estimates quoted to the city's schools
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by Brad.C » Fri May 13, 2016 2:21 pm
I think B is the right answer
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