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A corporation proposes to put an end to the unauthorised dumping of building waste at the culvert on the town's edge by fencing the culvert and its approach. Which of the following is an assumption on which the corporation's proposal depends?

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  • AThe fence can be put up before the coming monsoon
  • BThose who now dump at the culvert have no other open ground as convenient to them, to which a fence at the culvert would simply send them
  • CThe building waste dumped at the culvert comes from within the town
  • DThe corporation's own vehicles do not dump at the culvert

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The proposal is to end the dumping, not merely to end it at that culvert, and a fence only shuts one place. If a second piece of waste ground lies as near and as unwatched, the lorries turn into it the same night and the town is exactly as it was, so the proposal takes for granted that there is no such place. When the fence goes up is a matter of programme, not of principle; the waste is a nuisance wherever it originates; and the corporation's own vehicles would be shut out by the fence along with everyone else's, so the proposal does not depend on their innocence.
Answer: B) Those who now dump at the culvert have no other open ground as convenient to them, to which a fence at the culvert would simply send them

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