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CAT/2000
Question . 7
Directions for Questions: Read the information in each question given below and answer the question that follows:
The problem of traffic congestion in Athens has been testing the ingenuity of politicians and town planners for years. But the measures adopted to date have not succeeded in decreasing the numbers of cars on the road in the city centre. In 1980, an odds and evens number-plate legislation was introduced under which odd and even plates were banned in the city centre on alternate days, thereby expecting to halve the number of cars in the city centre. Then in 1993, it was decreed that all cars in use in the city centre must be fitted with catalytic converters; a regulation had just then been introduced, substantially reducing import taxes on cars with catalytic converters, the only condition being that the buyer of such a ‘clean’ car offered for destruction a car at least 15 years old.
Which one of the following options, if true, would best support the claim that the measures adopted to date have not succeeded.
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Critical Reasoning question
(a) With families purchasing second cars it can be easily supported that the measures adopted to date have not succeeded. Option (b) if true will oppose the claim.