Kendrick Pearson

English

22 January, 08:38

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 newspaper article about the millions of speeding tickets issued

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

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

a study finding that fewer accidents occur at lower highway speeds