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.

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The statement that best reinforces Feldman's claim that people are mostly honest is: "Feldman's payment system was largely successful." This follows from the text, in which Feldman's trade scheme is reported, through which he distributed bread rolls using an honor system that consisted of handing some rolls and a basket of cash to the company's refreshment room; and would return later before lunch to collect money and leftovers. Through this system the assertion that people are mostly honest is demonstrated

Based on the excerpt, the statement that best strengthens Feldman's claim that people are mostly honest is the second one: "Feldman's payment system was largely successful".

This fact is the key of Feldman's project because he developed a business and a payment method that could have not worked, but it did. The payment system, in this case the cash basket, showed him that he could trust people. Actually, the key of his success was the confident relationship he developed with his clients. This confidence in the costumer's good behaviour in the payment method was the evidence he needed to believe in people's good intentions and honesty.