【正文】 group of developers in the city of Monroe.　　　A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away。 thus, the proposed new jazz club in Monroe, the CNote, would have the local market all to itself. Plus, jazz is extremely popular in Monroe: over 100,000 people attended Monroe39。s annual jazz festival last summer。 several wellknown jazz musicians live in Monroe。 and the highestrated radio program in Monroe is 39。Jazz Nightly,39。 which airs every weeknight at 7 . Finally, a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment.　　Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.　　　　　The following appeared in the summary of a study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia.　　　Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, for the past several decades, foodprocessing panies have also been adding salicylates to foods as preservatives. This rise in the mercial use of salicylates has been found to correlate with a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by participants in our twentyyear study. Recently, foodprocessing panies have found that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods. With this new use for salicylates, we can expect a continued steady decline in the number of headaches suffered by the average citizen of Mentia.　　Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.　　　The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.　Commuters plain that increased rushhour traffic on Blue Highway between the suburbs and the city center has doubled their muting time. The favored proposal of the motorists39。 lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic. But last year39。s addition of a lane to the nearby Green Highway was followed by a worsening of traffic jams on it. A better alternative is to add a bicycle lane to Blue Highway. Many area residents are keen bicyclists. A bicycle lane would encourage them to use bicycles to mute, and so would reduce rushhour traffic rather than fostering an increase.　Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.　　　　The following appeared in the summary of a study on headaches suffered by the residents of Mentia.　　　Salicylates are members of the same chemical family as aspirin, a medicine used to treat headaches. Although many foods are naturally rich in salicylates, for the past several decades, foodprocessing panies have also been adding salicylates to foods as preservatives. This rise in the mercial use of salicylates has been found to correlate with a steady decline in the average number of headaches reported by participants in our twentyyear study. Recently, foodprocessing panies have found that salicylates can also be used as flavor additives for foods. With this new use for salicylates, we can expect a continued steady decline in the number of headaches suffered by the average citizen of Mentia.　　Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.　　　The following appeared in an editorial in a local newspaper.　　Commuters plain that increased rushhour traffic on Blue Highway between the suburbs and the city center has doubled their muting time. The favored proposal of the motorists39。 lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic. Opponents note that last year39。s addition of a lane to the nearby Green Highway was followed by a worsening of traffic jams on it. Their suggested alternative proposal is adding a bicycle lane to Blue Highway. Many area residents are keen bicyclists. A bicycle lane would encourage them to use bicycles to mute, it is argued, thereby reducing rushhour traffic.　　Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the remendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the remendation.　　The following appeared as a remendation by a mittee planning a tenyear budget for the city of Calatrava.　The birthrate in our city is declining: in fact, last year39。s birthrate was only onehalf that of five years ago. Thus the number of students enrolled in our public schools will soon decrease dramatically, and we can safely reduce the funds budgeted for education during the next decade. At the same time, we can reduce funding for athletic playing fields and other recreational facilities. As a result, we will have sufficient money to fund city facilities and programs used primarily by adults, since we can expect the adult population of the city to increase.　　Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.　　　　　　The following appeared in a letter to the editor of Parson City39。s local newspaper.　In our region of Trillura, the majority of money spent on the schools that most students attend—the cityrun public schools—es from taxes that each city government collects. The region39。s cities differ, however, in the budgetary priority they give to public education. For example, both as a proportion of its overall tax revenues and in absolute terms, Parson City has recently spent almost