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The author claims that all level and straight highways should have their speed limit reflect the average speed of traffic on such highways. This is because a study has shown that this practice reduces the accident rate.

The author provides evidence that this measure reduces the accident rate on these roads, but doesn’t establish that this means it should be implemented nationwide. It’s possible that there are other considerations that aren’t being accounted for, so the author is assuming that an action reducing the accident rate is sufficient reason to take it.

To justify the author’s reasoning, we’re looking for a principle that establishes that a policy should be implemented if it reduces the accident rate.

Leads to a different conclusion. The author claims that this speed limit should apply to high-speed roadways, not that it shouldn’t apply to other roadways.

Wrong trigger. The uniform national speed limit is a hypothetical measure that could be taken; it has not actually been established as a traffic law.

Leads to a different conclusion. (C) describes a necessary condition, which would only be useful in determining what roadways should not have a uniform speed limit. Since the author claims that there should be a uniform national speed limit, this principle doesn’t help.

Wrong trigger and leads to a different conclusion. We don’t know how often any long-standing law gets violated. Further, the conclusion states that a uniform national speed limit should be set; it makes no judgment about what is or isn’t a good law.

Since uniform speed limits reduce accident rates, this principle would help justify the author’s conclusion that it should be set nationwide.

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