Head injury is the most serious type of injury sustained in motorcycle accidents. The average cost to taxpayers for medicalcare for nonhelmeted motorcycle-accident victims is twice that for their helmeted counterparts. Jurisdictions that have enacted motorcycle-helmet laws have reduced the incidence and severity of accident-related head injuries, thereby reducing the cost to taxpayers. Therefore, to achieve similar cost reductions, other jurisdictions should enact motorcycle-helmet laws. For the same reason jurisdictions should also require helmets for horsebackriders , since horseback-riding accidents are even more likely to cause serious head injury than motorcycle accidentsare .
Which one of the following is an assumption upon which the author's conclusion concerning helmets for horseback riders depend?
(A) Medical care for victims of horseback-riding accidents is financial drain on taxfunds . - CORRECT. Cost reductions in the conclusion equates to financial drain in this choice.
(B)
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Which one of the following is an assumption upon which the author's conclusion concerning helmets for horseback riders depend?
(A) Medical care for victims of horseback-riding accidents is financial drain on taxfunds . - CORRECT. Cost reductions in the conclusion equates to financial drain in this choice.
(B)
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