Question

Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics.

Driving around the parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple pitch: early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to company’s snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the leftovers. It was an honor-system commerce scheme, and it worked. Within a few years, Feldman was delivering 8,400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as much as he had ever made as a research analyst. He had thrown off the shackles of cubicle life and made himself happy.

Based on the excerpt, which statement best strengthens Feldman’s claim that people are mostly honest?
Feldman solicited customers with a simple pitch.
Feldman’s payment system was largely successful.
Feldman earned a good living delivering bagels.
Feldman found a new career and made himself happy.

Answer 1

B

Step-by-step explanation:

he was very successful

Answer 2

The answer is: Feldman’s payment system was largely successful.

In the excerpt from "Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics," the speaker reinforces Feldman's affirmation that people are mostly honest because he used to distribute the bagels in the morning first, and he collected the money after the customers had taken their bagels by midday. Singularly, the customers actually paid him and he earned more than he did as a research analyst.