Question

Read this claim and counterclaim.

Claim: The fifty-five-mile-per-hour highway speed limit should be brought back.


Counterclaim: The fifty-five-mile-per-hour highway speed limit is useless, because people drive as fast as they want.


Which evidence best addresses the counterclaim?


A.a newspaper article about the millions of speeding tickets issued

B.statistics showing that people tend to drive just five miles above the speed limit

C.a story about a relative who always drives at the speed limit

D.a study finding that fewer accidents occur at lower highway speeds

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Read this claim and counterclaim.

Claim: The fifty-five-mile-per-hour highway speed limit should be brought back.

Counterclaim: The fifty-five-mile-per-hour highway speed limit is useless, because people drive as fast as they want.

Which evidence best addresses the counterclaim?

A.a newspaper article about the millions of speeding tickets issued

B.statistics showing that people tend to drive just five miles above the speed limit

C.a story about a relative who always drives at the speed limit

D.a study finding that fewer accidents occur at lower highway speeds

Answer 2

B. Statistics showing that people tend to drive just five miles above the speed limit.

Step-by-step explanation:

A counterclaim of an argument is when a claim is rebutted or countered. In other words, the rebuttal or the arguments presented against the original claim is known as the counterclaim.

In the given scenario, the claim is that the 55 miles per hour highway speed limit be reactivated. And the counterclaim for that is that this is useless because nobody really cares about the limit and drives however they want, whatever the limit may be.

Now, to counter that counterclaim, the best evidence will be to provide statistical data of people tending to drive just five miles above the permitted sped limit.

Thus, the correct answer is option B.