Statement: "whenever a company’s activities reduce the quality of life for nearby homeowners, the company should be legally required to pay each homeowner a fee to fairly compensate for the reduction in that home’s financial value resulting from those activities."

proposed assumption: unless legally required to do so, no company will pay compensation for reductions in the values of nearby homes caused by the company’s activities.
assumption made
assumption not made

Assumption not made

Explanation:

In the provided statement, there are no assertions regarding any facts concerning the company or the homeowners. Also, the proposed assumption is not made in the given statement as it is possible that some company might decide to pay each homeowner a fee to fairly compensate for the reduction in that home’s financial value resulting from those activities based on the statement or that all or none of the companies pay a fee. In the given statement no such assertion has been made and hence, it is clear that no assumption has been made here.

no the answer is c only objects touching the earth's surface can be acted upon by an outside force

the answer is implicit statements