Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Rail Executive: Last year we discontinued our Somerton train service

Rail Executive: Last year we discontinued our Somerton train service because low ridership caused total fares collected to be substantially lower than the cost of operating the service. However, the number of people living in communities near the Somerton train line has increased significantly this year. Therefore, potential ridership must also have increased, and so there is a good chance that restoring the Somerton train service this year would not result in serious deficits.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the rail executive's argument?


(A) Once rail service along a given route has been discontinued, there are substantial start-up costs associated with restoring service along that route.

(B) Most potential Somerton riders are unwilling to pay more for the train service than riders paid last year.

(C) Very few of the Somerton line's former daily commuters find the means of transportation that they now use as satisfactory as the train service had been.

(D) After
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Statistics : Posted by KarishmaB • on 24 Jul 2016, 00:39 • Replies 14 • Views 13907

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