Necessary AssumptionDiff: Easy
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: The city sold its parking business to a company that made a massive profit; the author thinks the city should have kept the business to keep the cash.
Conclusion: The city made an error in selling the rights to manage parking fees to a private entity.
Reasoning: The private company made significantly more profit from the fees than they paid the city for the rights, and the city would have kept that revenue otherwise.
Analysis: The argument relies on a major 'Gap' regarding the city's operational capabilities. It assumes that if the city had kept the rights, it would have been able to generate the same level of profit as the private company. This is a bold assumption in the world of municipal bureaucracy! To be a necessary assumption, the city must have been capable of raising fees or managing the system efficiently enough to actually see those profits. Look for an answer that addresses whether the city could have realistically captured that same revenue.
Conclusion: The city made an error in selling the rights to manage parking fees to a private entity.
Reasoning: The private company made significantly more profit from the fees than they paid the city for the rights, and the city would have kept that revenue otherwise.
Analysis: The argument relies on a major 'Gap' regarding the city's operational capabilities. It assumes that if the city had kept the rights, it would have been able to generate the same level of profit as the private company. This is a bold assumption in the world of municipal bureaucracy! To be a necessary assumption, the city must have been capable of raising fees or managing the system efficiently enough to actually see those profits. Look for an answer that addresses whether the city could have realistically captured that same revenue.
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Correct Answer
B
B ties the profit-inference together: if the city could have raised fees had it not sold the rights, then the extra revenue the company captured plausibly could have gone to the city. Negation test: If the city could not have raised fees, then the company’s extra profits would not have been available to the city, and the pundit’s reasoning (“that money would have gone to the city”) breaks down. So B is necessary.
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