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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-001
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Strengthen
Difficulty level: Medium

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Buses on the riverside route in the city of Ferngate reach their stops at unpredictable times, and ridership on the route has fallen by a fifth over three years. Next month the transit agency will fit the route's traffic signals with equipment that holds a green light for an approaching bus; where other agencies have installed this equipment, buses have arrived far closer to their published times. The agency predicts that the equipment will reverse the riverside route's ridership decline.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the agency's prediction?

AMost of the people who stopped using the riverside route during those three years have since moved away from the neighbourhoods the route serves.

BThe equipment will reduce wear on the buses' brakes, lowering what the agency spends each year to maintain them.

CThe local tax that pays for Ferngate's transit agency was renewed by voters last year.

DA few former riders of the route have said that they would think about returning if the service were improved in some way.

ERiders who left the route during those three years mostly switched to journeys that are slower and costlier but more dependable.

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