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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 2.1 Inference. Which of the following would not be a reasonable assumption given the information provided in the passage?

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brought to you by west coast hipsters They were answering

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online quizzes before it was cool Check out the following

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passage right here Portland's aren't sending oregon We have people

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in the head and the city is logan and rivers

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called me and well amit greenest city friendly public traffic

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All right which of the following would not be a

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reasonable assumption given the information provided in the passage Reasonable

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what's real all right And here the potential answers oregon

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portland All right portland it's given us all rock a

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ton of coffee and now this paragraph So which of

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these statements is not accurate Portland is the largest city

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in the state and more than half of oregonians lived

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there Well it's safe to assume there aren't many other

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big cities in the state They're just don't enough people

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to go around So option a is not a reasonable

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answer And portland is the greenest city in the country

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Well so unless that green is referring to toxic sludge

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it makes sense that such an ico friendly city wouldn't

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have pollution problems It says right in the text shortland

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is known for its strong public transportation system so it's

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logical to assume that many people are using it These

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aren't just empty ghost trains without any passengers we've seen

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in the article but it's kind of scary so he's

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an unreasonable assumption too But regarding option c the passage

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states portland is located between two rivers So unless these

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rivers were somehow full of sand yeah it doesn't make

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sense that the area around them would be arid arid

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means dry and wealth water is not dry so see

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is not a reasonable assumption making it the correct answer

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