Statement: To improve punctuality, a school announced that students who arrive late will be fined. Which of the following is an assumption implicit in this decision?

Question

Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.
A. Back then, they were owned by companies and installed on their premises.
B. Rooms and servers began to replace computer mainframes in the 1990’s.
C. These were supplemented by processors from Intel, which by the mid-2000s translated its dominance of PC semiconductors into a near monopoly of the server market.
D. They mostly ran on chips made by IBM and HP, the big tech of the day.
E. Things started to change once again around a decade ago, when Amazon began selling some of its spare server capacity.
Which of the following combinations is the MOST logically ordered?

Answer 1

Negation test: if fining students did not discourage lateness at all, the policy could not improve punctuality and the decision would be pointless. Since the assumption's negation destroys the plan, it is the implicit assumption.

Statement: To improve punctuality, a school announced that students who arrive late will be fined. Which of the following is an assumption implicit in this decision?

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The Correct Option is C

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