Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: A year ago the government reduced the highway speed limit, and

- A year ago the government reduced the highway speed limit
- There have been significantly fewer highway fatalities than there were in the previous year.

Conclusion - Speed limit reduction can reduce traffic fatalities.

We are looking for an assumption (takes for granted...)

(A) highway traffic has not increased over the past year.

We don't need to assume that. Number of fatalities has gone down. If highway traffic has increased and number of fatalities has gone down, our conclusion makes just a little more sense.

(B) the majority of drivers obeyed the new speed limit.

We don't need majority to obey the speed limit. Our conclusion is "Speed limit reduction can reduce traffic fatalities". Even if the fatalities have been reduced by a small amount, we can say that speed limit reduction can reduce traffic fatalities.

(C) there is a relation between driving speed and the number of automobile accidents.

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Statistics : Posted by saurabhbajpai • on 12 Jan 2019, 00:39 • Replies 12 • Views 7309

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