PrepTest 155, Section 1, Question 21
Guidelines for constructing new Bonjour hotels: A hotel(55 more words not shown)
The reasoning in which one(10 more words not shown)
- AThe newest Bonjour(25 more words not shown)
- BThe newest Bonjour(33 more words not shown)
- CThe newest Bonjour(27 more words not shown)
- DThe newest Bonjour(34 more words not shown)
- EThe newest Bonjour(33 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
We have two ways to require heating, but no rule that guarantees we should install cooling.
A radiant floor cooling system requires a heating system alongside it. Being a luxury hotel also requires heating. Either fact gets us to heating; the guidelines don't say those are the only possible reasons to install it. A budget hotel could have heating too.
Cooling has a separate restriction: don't install it where summers tend to be highly humid. That tells us when cooling is ruled out. It doesn't say low humidity is enough to require cooling.
What we’re looking for
We're applying the guidelines, so test each proposed installation one system at a time. If an answer recommends heating, find the fact that triggers a heating rule. If it rejects cooling, look for the humidity restriction. Don't turn a condition that rules cooling out into a guarantee that cooling belongs everywhere else.
Working the answers
- A
Not being a luxury hotel doesn't require rejecting cooling. The rules don't say that cooling is only for luxury hotels. Also, the guidelines concern new construction, while this answer says the hotel isn't being newly constructed. We haven't been given a rule that supports its decision about cooling from these facts.
- BCorrect
The hotel is luxurious, so the luxury rule requires heating. Its region is humid throughout the year, which includes summer, so the humidity rule prohibits cooling. Each recommendation has its own stated basis. We don't need to infer anything beyond those two applications.
- C
Having heating doesn't rule out cooling. In fact, the first guideline contemplates installing them together: if cooling is installed, heating is required. Nor does being nonluxury prohibit cooling. Without information about high summer humidity, these facts don't justify the answer's rejection of cooling.
- D
The humidity justifies excluding cooling, but the luxury designation requires heating. D says to install neither, so it directly conflicts with the heating rule. One correct half of the proposed decision doesn't rescue the incorrect half.
- E
The luxury designation justifies heating. Very low humidity removes the stated obstacle to cooling, but removing an obstacle doesn't make installation mandatory. The guidelines never give a condition under which cooling must be installed. So E can't justify recommending both systems from the facts it supplies.
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