The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
With the information provided,the assumtions leading to the conclusion drawn in this argument remains unfounded.The author uses the evidence that moped accidents in the neighboring island of Seaville decreases due to reduction in the limit of the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. So, in the same way it will reduce moped accidents in balmer island too.However the author makes a number of unproved assumptions that hamper a reader's ability to believe the author's conclusion. If the author was to provide more evi...
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Sentence: With the information provided,the assumtions leading to the conclusion drawn in this argument remains unfounded.The author uses the evidence that moped accidents in the neighboring island of Seaville decreases due to reduction in the limit of the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season.
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