Guidelines for constructing new Bonjour hotels

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Trigger Match2% picked this

   The newest Bonjour hotel should not have a radiant floor cooling system installed, for it is not being newly constructed and it

   This is concluding "shouldn't have cooling", so we're trying to use the 2nd guideline. We need to know that this hotel is in an area with lots of summer humidity, but we are not told that.

   2%
2. B

   Correct63% picked this

   The newest Bonjour hotel should have a radiant floor heating system but not a radiant floor cooling system installed, for it will be a

   Why this is right

   The conclusion is "should have heating", so we're using Guideline 1. But it's also concluding "should not have a radiant floor cooling system", so it's also using Guideline 2. To trigger "should have heating" we need to know it's getting radiant floor cooling or that it's a luxury hotel. We're told that it's a luxury hotel, so we're good to go on guideline 1. To conclude that it "should not have radiant floor cooling", we need to know that this region tends to have high humidity in the summer. Since we're told this region has high humidity throughout the year, then it definitely has high humidity in the summer, so we're good to go on guideline 2 as well.

   Skill tested: Principle-Conform · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   63%
3. C

   Bad Trigger Match4% picked this

   The newest Bonjour hotel should not have a radiant floor cooling system installed, for it will not be a luxury hotel and it will

   This is concluding "shouldn't have cooling", so we're trying to use the 2nd guideline. We need to know that this hotel is in an area with lots of summer humidity, but we are not told that.

   4%
4. D

   Bad Conclusion Match10% picked this

   The newest Bonjour hotel should have neither a radiant floor heating system nor a radiant floor cooling system installed, for it will be a

   This is concluding "shouldn't have cooling and shouldn't have heating". Guideline 2 allows us to prove that a hotel shouldn't have radiant floor cooling, but we have no means of proving that a hotel shouldn't have radiant floor heating, so the conclusion makes this one a non-starter.

   10%
5. E

   Bad Conclusion Match21% picked this

   The newest Bonjour hotel should have both a radiant floor cooling system and a radiant floor heating system installed, for it will be a

   This is concluding "should have cooling and should have heating". Guideline 1 allows us to prove that a hotel should have radiant floor heating, but we have no means of proving that a hotel should have radiant floor cooling, so the conclusion makes this one a non-starter.

   21%