When people evade

[atulmangal]

source:--Knewton-prep

When people evade fares on public transportation systems, they begin a vicious cycle. Fare evasion results in lost revenue, which forces local governments to raise public transportation fares, which raises the public transportation costs for those who use the public transportation and who do not evade fares. This, in turn, encourages even more people to evade fares.

The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?


(A) An increase in public transportation fares is an incentive for commuters to buy bulk transportation passes at a discount.

(B) Some methods for catching fare evaders may save the transportation system more money in lost fare evasions than they cost, but their success rate is variable.

(C) Public transportation users who routinely evade paying fares cannot be induced to stop evading fares through a reduction of fares unless the penalties for fare evasion are simultaneously increased.

(D) When local governments initially set public transportation prices designed to raise a certain amount of revenue, they do not factor in the costs of fare evasion.

(E) The fare amount that will induce a rider to begin evading fares is the same for all public transportation users.

[boazkhan]

IMO D

[abhi0697]

IMO D.
Local government will increase fare after evasion only if initially they have not factored this amount while setting public transportation prices.

[cyrwr1]

D, there is a similar question in one of the OG's I believe regarding tax evaders.

[VivianKerr]

CONCLUSION: Evading fares = vicious cycle (more people will evade fares)

EVIDENCE: Evading fares = lost revenue = raise fares = higher cost to public

ASSUMPTIONS: Each step must lead to the next; there can be no other solution. The gov't must raise fares. The higher fares must cause more fare evasion.

QUESTION REPHRASE: What must happen for the conclusion to work?

PREDICTION: Anything that continues to link evading fares to MORE people evading fares.

A - This would weaken the argument.
B - If the success rate is "variable" it doesn't help or hurt.
C - How does this lead to MORE people evading fares?
D - CORRECT. This strengthens the link in the cycle.
E - Irrelevant.

[atulmangal]

OA is indeed D guys

[amit2k9]

the vicious cycles is happening because of the revenue lost due to fare evading.

D brings out this reasoning.