easy · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Despite a 50% increase in the budget for the city's snow removal services, the main roads took longer to clear after a recent storm than they did after a comparable storm two years ago.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain why the roads took longer to clear despite the larger budget?
- The recent storm brought temperatures far below those of the earlier one, cold enough to render the city's standard road salt nearly useless.
- At the start of the season the city bought five new, top-of-the-line snowplows that clear roads markedly faster than the older machines they replaced.
- The recent storm struck on a quiet weekend, when far fewer vehicles were on the roads to obstruct the plows than during the earlier weekday storm.
- The expanded snow removal budget is financed entirely through the same local property taxes that funded the smaller budget two years earlier.
- Almost no other city anywhere in the surrounding region experienced significant snowfall at all during the storm that recently struck this city.
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