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Question

Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville are too expensive. Starting last year, the city council, hoping to attract more tourists, lowered the hotel tax rate to 5 percent of room charges. By the end of last year, Midville had taken in no less money from hotel taxes than it did the year before, so an examination of the hotel records will show that more tourists stayed in city hotels last year than the year before.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

 

Difficulty Level

Easy

Solution

Option C is the correct answer.

Option Analysis

Question type: Find the assumption.  

Summary of the argument: The argument says that more tourists stayed in the hotel last year than this year because the city managed to collect the same amount of taxes despite the tax rate reducing.  

 

A) It doesn’t matter whether the tourists were aware or not because it still doesn’t explain why the number increased or didn’t.  

B) The price of the hotel doesn’t really matter.  

C) Correct Answer 

D) More efforts don’t translate to more money that the hotels are making.  

E) The concern is not about whether they spent more on meals or on accommodation.