Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The city of Workney, in raising bus fares from $1.00 to $1.25, propose

The city of Workney, in raising bus fares from $1.00 to $1.25, proposed that 18 fare tokens be sold for $20.00 to alleviate the extra burden of the fare increase on the city’s poor people. Critics suggested alternatively that 9 fare tokens be sold for $10.00, because a $20.00 outlay would be prohibitive for poor riders.

The alternative proposal depends on which of the following assumptions?

A. Poor residents of Workney will continue to ride the buses in the same numbers despite the fare increase.
B.