[Solved] Statement: "Traffic police should impose higher fines to reduce signal jumping."Assumptions:1️⃣ Drivers often break traffic signals.2️⃣ Stricter fines will discourage violations.... | Reasoning Ability

Reasoning Ability - Statement & Assumption

Statement: "Traffic police should impose higher fines to reduce signal jumping."
Assumptions:
1️⃣ Drivers often break traffic signals.
2️⃣ Stricter fines will discourage violations.
Which assumption(s) is/are implicit?

AOnly 1

BOnly 2

CBoth 1 and 2

DNeither 1 nor 2

Step-by-Step Solution

Step 1: Identify the problem suggested
The proposal to impose fines presumes that signal-jumping occurs and is a problem.
Step 2: Test assumptions
Assumption 1 (drivers break signals often) is implicit — that's why fines are proposed. Assumption 2 (fines will necessarily discourage violations) is a policy-efficacy claim; the statement suggests fines as a remedy but does not strictly imply that fines are guaranteed to work (other measures might also be effective), so Only 1 is the firmer implicit assumption.
Final Answer:
Only 1 is implicit. → Option A
Quick Check:
If no violations happened, proposing fines would be unnecessary ✅

Quick Trick: When a punitive measure is suggested, first check existence of the problem — solution efficacy may be assumed less strongly.

Common Mistakes:

Automatically taking proposed remedy as a guaranteed effect.

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