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Springfield fire commisioner OG

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by gocoder » Mon Nov 21, 2016 9:31 am
Springfield Fire Commissioner: the vast majority of false fire alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street corners. Since virtually everyone has access to a private telephone, these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore, we propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people's ability to report a fire.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim that the proposal, if carried out, will have the announced effect?

A. The fire department traces all alarm calls made from private telephones and records where they came from.

B. Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs Springfield approximately five million dollars annually.

C. A telephone call can provide the fire department with more information about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an alarm box.

D. Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire department's capacity for responding to fires.

E. On any given day, a significant percentage of the public telephones in Springfield are out of service.

Conclusion: removing fire boxes will reduce the prank calls without hampering the ability to launch complaints.

I was torn apart between A and C.
ability= nature of fire or whereabouts of the incidents of fire. I couldn't choose here.
Please help
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by DavidG@VeritasPrep » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:07 am
gocoder wrote:Springfield Fire Commissioner: the vast majority of false fire alarms are prank calls made anonymously from fire alarm boxes on street corners. Since virtually everyone has access to a private telephone, these alarm boxes have outlived their usefulness. Therefore, we propose to remove the boxes. Removing the boxes will reduce the number of prank calls without hampering people's ability to report a fire.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the claim that the proposal, if carried out, will have the announced effect?

A. The fire department traces all alarm calls made from private telephones and records where they came from.

B. Maintaining the fire alarm boxes costs Springfield approximately five million dollars annually.

C. A telephone call can provide the fire department with more information about the nature and size of a fire than can an alarm placed from an alarm box.

D. Responding to false alarms significantly reduces the fire department's capacity for responding to fires.

E. On any given day, a significant percentage of the public telephones in Springfield are out of service.

Conclusion: removing fire boxes will reduce the prank calls without hampering the ability to launch complaints.

I was torn apart between A and C.
ability= nature of fire or whereabouts of the incidents of fire. I couldn't choose here.
Please help
Conclusion: removing the boxes will reduce prank calls without hampering people's ability to report a fire.

So there are two desirable outcomes: 1) fewer prank calls 2)no limitations on ability to report a fire

Well, we already know that virtually everyone has a private phone. They can use these phones to alert the station about any fires. So it looks like #2 is okay. The other piece here is that the number of prank calls will go down. We might be concerned that the prank callers will simply switch from making their calls from boxes to making their calls from private lines. So a good answer choice will offer a deterrent from making prank calls from private phones. That's what we get from A Prank callers will get caught if these calls are all traced.

C is irrelevant. Remember that the goal here isn't to get improved information about fires. It's to reduce prank phone calls without interfering with people's ability to report fires.
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by gocoder » Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:45 am
I really appreciate this.
Now I see how private phones can help deter the false alarm issues.Thanks :)
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