It is well known that many homeless people frequent public libraries as a kind of sanctuary. now, several dozen public libraries across the country have made their facilities more useful to homeless people by offering free job training programs, for adults and free activities for homeless children. while the administrators of these libraries mean well, the homeless do not pay property taxes to support the library, so these people are getting something for nothing, a dangerous practice for all concerned.

which of the following is assumed by the author of this argument?

a)none of the sales tax paid by homeless people who use the free services is used by the libraries.
b) property taxes are used predominantly to support public libraries.

The First answer is

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The second possible answer is:

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Step-by-step explanation:

First we draw the k-maps for the function . There are two k-maps, one with V as zero while the other is V as 1. Then we combine the entries in power of 2. Remember that the function is given in maxterms form.Max-terms are those whose value is 0. So all the values other than max-values are either 1 or don't care. So we will keep these terms 0 and other as 1. The k-maps are attached in the files below. The essential prime implicants are those which are repeated in all the possible solutions.In this case Essential prime implicants are :

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