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tingc95

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You are up late the night before your paper is due, writing it in the midst of a big storm. You know that if your electricity should be knocked out, your computer would fail and you might lose some or all of your paper. You decide to transfer your paper to a thumb drive and also send what you have written thus far to your professor in an email attachment. This is an example of the use of:
 
  a. A hidden assumption
  b. A mistaken assumption
  c. A working assumption
  d. An unconscious assumption

Question 2

In California, a man held up a bank dressed in a Levi jacket and pants. He had a beard and his hair was in dreadlocks. He waved a hand grenade and pointed to some sticks of dynamite (actually road flares) that he had strapped to his waist. After leaving the bank he ran into a warehouse next door where he shed his wig, beard, the flares and clothing. Next he changed into a blue, pinstriped suit. Stopped by the police officer outside, he insisted, I'm not the one The police officer let him go. What assumptions did the robber count on in his strategy for an escape?
 
  a. That a man dressed like a rich banker could not be a thief.
  b. That dress disguises would not be used. c. That a bank robber would be desperate, poor, or an anarchist nut.
  d. All of these choices.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d



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