A recent report determined that although only 3 percent of drivers on Maryland highways equipped their vehicles with radar detectors, 33 percent of all vehicles ticketed for exceeding the speed limit were equipped with them. Clearly, drivers who equip their vehicles with radar detectors are more likely to exceed the speed limit regularly than are drivers who do not.
The conclusion drawn above depends on which of the following assumptions?
When demand for a factory’s product is high, more money is spent at the factory for safety precautions and machinery than when demand is low. Thus, the average number of on-the-job accident per emplyee each month should be lower during periods when demand is high than when demand is low and less money is available for safety precautions and machinery maintenance.
Which of the following, if true about a factory when demand for its product is high, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion drawn above ?
(A)Its employees ask for higher wages than they do at other times (B)Its management hires new workers but lacks the time to train them properly. (C)Its emplyees are less likely to lose their jobs than they are at other times (D)Its management sponsors a monthly safety award for each division in the factory (E)Its sold machinery is replaced with modern, automated models
A recent report determined that althought only 3 percent of drivers on Maryland highways equipped their vehicles with radar detectors, 33 percent of all vehicles ticketed for exceeding the speed limit were equipped with them. Clearly, drivers who equip their vehicles with radar detectors are more likely to exceed the speed limit reguarly than are drivers who do not.
The conclusion above depends on which of the following assumptions ?
(A)Drivers who equip their vehicles with radar detectors are less likely to be ticketed for exceeding the speed limit than are drivers who do not (B)Drivers who are ticketed for exceeding the speed limit are more likely to exceed the speed limit regularly than are drivers who are not ticketed (C)The number of vehicles that were ticketed for exceeding the speed limit was greater than the number of vehicles that were equipped with radar detectors (D)Many of the vehicles that were ticketed for exceeding the speed limit were ticketed more than once in the time period covered by the report (E)Drivers on Maryland highways exceeded the speed limit more often than did drivers on other state highways not covered in the report
In order to withstand tidal currents, juvenile horseshoe crabs frequently burrow in the sand. Such burrowing discourages barnacles from clinging to their shells. When fully grown, however, the crabs can readily withstand tidal currents without burrowing, and thus they require substantial populations of barnacles. Surpringly, in areas where tidal currents are very weak, juvenile horseshoe crabs are found not to have significant barnacle populations, even though they seldom burrow.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the surprising finding ?
(A)Tidal currents do not themselves dislodge barnacles from the shells of horseshoe crabs (B)Barnacles most readily attach themselves to horseshoe crabs in areas where tidal currents are weakest. (C)The strength of the tidal currents in a given location varies widely over the course of a day (D)A very large barnacle population can significantly decrease the ability of a horseshoe crab to find food (E)Utill they are fully grown, horseshoe crabs shed their sheels and grow new ones several times a year