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Difficulty: EasyStatement and Assumptions

Read the following administrative statement carefully.

Statement: In order to reduce daily traffic congestion, the city administration has introduced a free public shuttle service that connects major residential suburbs directly to the central business district during peak travel hours.

Which of the following assumptions are logically implicit in the administration's decision? (Select all that apply)

  1. A considerable number of commuters will be willing to use the free shuttle service instead of driving their own vehicles.Answer
  2. A significant volume of the current traffic congestion is caused by people traveling between these residential suburbs and the central business district.Answer
  3. C
    The city administration intends to eventually prohibit all private vehicles from entering the central business district.
  4. D
    Severe traffic congestion leads to increased carbon emissions and reduced economic productivity in the city.

Answer

The implicit assumptions are that commuters will be willing to use the shuttle service, and that travel between these specific suburbs and the central business district is a significant cause of the current traffic congestion.
For the administration's initiative to logically achieve its goal of reducing congestion, two premises must be true: the targeted route must currently be a significant source of traffic, and the public must be willing to adopt the new transportation alternative. Both are required, unstated assumptions.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the main goal and action in the statement.
The goal is to reduce traffic congestion. The action is providing a free shuttle service from residential suburbs to the central business district.
Identifying the cause-and-effect relationship intended by the administration is necessary to find what they are taking for granted.
2
Evaluate each option to see if it must be true for the administration's plan to make logical sense.
The plan only works if people actually use the shuttle, and if the route chosen (suburbs to business district) is currently a major source of traffic.
An assumption is a hidden premise that bridges the gap between the action and the intended goal.
3
Identify and eliminate options that are inferences or general real-world facts rather than implicit premises.
Future vehicle bans are speculative inferences. Environmental impacts of congestion are general facts, not premises for this specific transit solution.
Options that provide external knowledge or guess future actions do not qualify as implicit assumptions.

Key Concept

Identifying Implicit Premises in Administrative Decisions
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