Am I correct ? According to Mark Dowie\'s article, which of the following caused

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Am I correct ? According to Mark Dowie's article, which of the following caused the Ford Pinto to catch fire so easily: Select one or more: a. Ford rushed the Pinto into production in less than the usual amount of time. b. Ford engineers discovered through crash-testing that rear-end collisions would rupture the Pinto's fuel system, but because assembly-line machinery already being in place, Ford chose to manufacture the car as is-with the exploding gas tank. C. There was no other, safer way to place or manufacture a gas tank at that time. d. Ford was about to go bankrupt and the rushed production of the Pinto would keep the company from collapsing. e. A+B f. A+C h. All of the above According to Mark Dowie's article, Ford waited eight years to make changes to the Pinto because: Select one or more: No deaths occurred in the first eight years of Pinto production b. An internal "cost-benefit analysis," which places a dollar value on a human life, said it wasn't profitable to make the changes sooner c. There was no awareness of the fact that the placement of the fuel-system was problematic d. Because Ford would go bankrupt and close permanently if the Pinto was recalled

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1. Your chosen response is correct. Options A and B caused the Ford Pinto to catch fire so easily.

2. Your chosen response is correct.

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