Ok Sir step by step

the stem says

Mass transit authorities in large cities are struggling with deficits.


Basically, this sentence means no more money or just a little. Not like before when we were wealthy, rich. The times are tough

Riders complain about delays and breakdowns, cuts in service, and fares higher than they are accustomed to paying.

The riders say: the public transportation is bad. We pay a lot of money for it and we have as back a poor quality service


For all these reasons and because the price of gasoline is still not prohibitive, the number of passengers using public transportation has fallen, adding to the deficits.

For all the reasons above ANDDDDDDDD the price of gasoline is NOT so high or expensive, people prefer to use the car instead of metro or busses. This will entail a spiraling situation: the few persons will take the bus, the more the deficit will increase because few people pay the tickets for a ride

Which of the following statements about the relationship between the number of riders using public transportation and the price of gasoline is best supported by the passage above?

what kind of connection we do have between the riders or people using the bus and the price of gasoline ??



(A) As the price of gasoline rises, the number of riders using public transportation rises.

This is NOT true. We do not have enough information from the passage to assert this. we only do know that the price of gasoline is not that high and fewer persons is taking the bus


(B) Even if the price of gasoline rises, the number of riders. using public transportation will continue to decline.

Not true from the passage. Maybe the price will rise but maybe we will have a NEW futurist bus a lot cheap and people will take it. Who knows.


(C) If the price of gasoline rises to a prohibitive level, the ·number of riders using public transportation will rise.

From the passage

For all these reasons and because the price of gasoline is still not prohibitive, the number of passengers using public transportation has fallen, adding to the deficits.

Yes this is true. Must be true. Price per gallon of gasoline = 1 million of dollars = prohibitive = I will take the bus



(D) The majority of riders using public transportation do not use gasoline; hence, fluctuations in gasoline prices are unlikely to affect the number of riders using public transportation.

who use transportation do not use gasoline...blah blah blah.. Does not make any sense D

(E) The price of gasoline is always low enough to make private transportation cheaper than public transportation; hence, fluctuations in gasoline prices are unlikely to affect the number of riders using public transportation.

Confrontation BETWEEN PRIVATE and PUBLIC busses................never said that in the passage


I hope now is clear