The following appeared in an article in the Grandview Beacon.
For many years the city of Grandview has provided annual funding for the Grandview Symphony. Last year, however, private contributions to the symphony increased by 200 percent and attendance at the symphony's concerts-in-the-park series doubled. The symphony has also announced an increase in ticket prices for next year. Given such developments, some city commissioners argue that the symphony can now be fully self-supporting, and they recommend that funding for the symphony be eliminated from next year's budget.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation 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 recommendation.
While it may seem plausible that monetary support to the symphony should be cut off next year due to increase of private contribution, attendance in symphony’s-concert-in-the-park-series along with anticipation of higher ticket prices next year, close scrutiny of his assertion reveals that the writer seems to have left off rather important considerations that should have been taken seriously. In order to make his recommendation more appealing to the readers, several questions ought to be answered.
The statistical value cited here as evidence shows a 200% increase in private contributions...
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