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Ramesh: The town should widen the main road through the market. The traffic that crawls along it every morning wastes hours of everybody's time. Sujata: Widening it would swallow the footpath on both sides, and the shops there live on people who walk past them. The through-traffic should be taken around the market on the outer road instead. Ramesh and Sujata most clearly disagree about which of the following?

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  • AWhether traffic through the market moves slowly in the morning
  • BWhether widening the main road is the right way to deal with the traffic through the market
  • CWhether the shops in the market depend on people who walk past them
  • DWhether an outer road exists

Step-by-Step Solution

Both treat the slow morning traffic as a real problem worth solving; Sujata's answer is simply a different remedy. So the slow traffic is common ground and the remedy is the point of dispute. Ramesh never denies that the shops rely on passing walkers — he does not speak of them at all — and neither speaker questions that the outer road is there.
Answer: B) Whether widening the main road is the right way to deal with the traffic through the market

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