PT113.S3.Q24

PrepTest 113 - Section 3 - Question 24

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Town councillor: The only reason for the town to have ordinances restricting where skateboarding can be done would be to protect children from danger. █████████████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ████ ██ ███████████ ██████████ ███ ██ ██████ ███ ████ ██ █████████ ███████████ ███ ██ ████████ ██████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ████ ████ █████████ ██████████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ █████████████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ████ █████████ ████ █████████████ ██ ███ █████

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The town councillor concludes that the town shouldn’t ban skateboarding in the park. This is because if children can't skateboard in the park, they will instead skateboard in the streets, which is more dangerous.

Notable Assumptions

The premise about skateboarding in the streets versus in the park tells us that in any given case, it is more dangerous to skateboard in the streets than in the park. But we don't know how many children will skateboard in the streets versus in the park. If only 10 children start skateboarding in the streets, versus 500 in the park, then the overall danger to children might not be greater. So the councillor assumes that enough children will start skateboarding in the streets that there will be greater danger posed to children in general compared to the current state of affairs. The councillor also assumes skateboarding in the streets will not also be prohibited.

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24.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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