PT103.S2.Q11

PrepTest 103 - Section 2 - Question 11

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Commercial passenger airplanes can be equipped with a collision-avoidance radar system that provides pilots with information about the proximity of other airplanes. ███████ ███ ██████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ██████ ████ ██ █████████ █ ████████ ██████████ ██████████ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████ ████ ██ ██████████ █████████ ███ ██ █████████ ████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██████████ █████ ██████ ██ █████ ███████ ██████████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that passengers are safer on airplanes equipped with collision-avoidance radar, despite its tendency to give false collision warnings. This is because the radar warns pilots when to take evasive action.

Notable Assumptions

The author concludes that the collision-avoidance system improves overall safety, meaning that its tendency to warn of phantom planes doesn’t create more risk than the system prevents. This means the author assumes that pilots are able to filter out false warnings, or that swerving to avoid a phantom plane carries minimal safety risks.

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11.

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a

Evasive action taken ██ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████ █████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███████████

b

Commercial passenger airplanes ███ ██ ███████ ██████ ██ █████████ ████ █████ █████████ █████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ███████

c

Commercial passenger airplanes ███ ██████ ████████ ██ ██████████ █████ ██ ███████

d

A study by ████████████ ███ ███████ ███████████ █████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ████████

e

The collision-avoidance radar ██████ ██ ███ ██ █ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ████ █████ ███ ███ ███ ██████████ ███ █████████ ███████ ███████

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