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The Very Small City of Pleasantville Is Considering Building a Public

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The very small city of Pleasantville is considering building a public swimming pool that costs $1,000.The table shows the five voters in the city and their marginal benefit of a swimming pool.It takes a 4/5 majority to pass any tax measure and all voters must vote.  VOTER  MARGINAL BENEFIT  Kyle $420 Dylan $360 Fran $350 Ronnie $190 Sam $170\begin{array} { | c | c | } \hline \text { VOTER } & \text { MARGINAL BENEFIT } \\\hline \text { Kyle } & \$ 420 \\\hline \text { Dylan } & \$ 360 \\\hline \text { Fran } & \$ 350 \\\hline \text { Ronnie } & \$ 190 \\\hline \text { Sam } & \$ 170 \\\hline\end{array}
Suppose that Sam proposes allowing a private firm to build the pool that would charge the same one time fee to everyone for unlimited access to the pool.The outcome would be that the pool would


A) be built and the fee would be $200.
B) not be built.
C) be built and the fee would be $250.
D) be built and the fee would be $334.

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