Information and IdeasHardInference about parking requirements
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For decades, many American cities required every new restaurant to provide its own off-street parking — spaces that can cost tens of thousands of dollars each to build. When several cities dropped these requirements, restaurant openings rose sharply, concentrated in small storefronts converted from other uses, spaces where adding parking would have been impossible or ruinously expensive. The pattern suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the requirements had been keeping some would-be restaurateurs out of the market.Correct
- B. most diners prefer restaurants that offer ample parking.
- C. restaurants are less profitable than other small businesses.
- D. the cities eliminated the requirements in order to reduce traffic.
Answer: A. the requirements had been keeping some would-be restaurateurs out of the market.
If openings surged in converted storefronts once the parking rule vanished, the rule's cost had evidently been blocking people who otherwise would have opened restaurants.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. most diners prefer restaurants that offer ample parking.
- Diner preferences are never mentioned, and the boom happened with less parking, not more.
- C. restaurants are less profitable than other small businesses.
- The text compares restaurants before and after a rule change, not restaurants against other businesses.
- D. the cities eliminated the requirements in order to reduce traffic.
- The text gives no motive for the repeal; it reports what followed it.
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