Question from LR

tkazanjian5

please go over PT1 S3 Q12

Nomads Poem

If there's an argument, you're always searching for an assumption or a weakness.

The argument concludes: the trend of decreasing national savings will continue.
based on premise: older people have fewer REASONS to save.

Well.. NUMBER of reasons doesn't show whether old people will actually save or not.
An old person may have only one reason but a very strong one and they will save.
And a young person may have multiple reasons to save but doesn't actually save.

Reasons to do X =/= does X

Answer choices (D) matches this anticipation.

(A) we don't need to know EXACTLY what the reasons are or what the strongest reasons are.
(B) argument isn't as extreme as to assume "CANNOT EVER"
(C) argument doesn't have to do this since it says "IF the average age... continues to rise"
(E) argument doesn't have to do this. it's just how the argument happened to calculate, but the author doesn't assume it's the best way or even better way than anything else.