Logical Reasoning

PT155 · S1 · Q21 Guidelines for constructing new Bonjour hotels

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Guidelines for constructing new Bonjour hotels: A hotel is to have a radiant floor heating system installed if a radiant floor cooling system is being installed or if it is to be a luxury hotel; however, a radiant floor cooling system should not be installed in any hotel that is located in a region that tends to have high humidity during the summer.

Guidelines

Installing radiant floor cooling should have or → radiant floor it's a luxury hotel heat installed

hotel located in region radiant floor that tends to have high → cooling system humidity during summer shouldn't be installed

Goal

We'll start reading each answer by looking for the conclusion.

If the conclusion says, "we should install heat", we'll look at Guideline 1 and make sure we're either told that it's a luxury hotel or that a radiant floor cooling system is being installed.

If the conclusion says, "we shouldn't install cool", we'll look at Guideline 2 and make sure that we're told this hotel is in a region where it's usually humid in the summer.

If the conclusion says anything else (f.e. "shouldn't install heat" / "should install cool"), we'll get rid of without reading the rest of the answer.

21.

The reasoning in which one of the following is most strongly supported by the guidelines?

The newest Bonjour hotel should
Bad Trigger Match
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.
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The newest Bonjour hotel should
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.
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The newest Bonjour hotel should
Bad Trigger Match
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.
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The newest Bonjour hotel should
Bad Conclusion Match
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.
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The newest Bonjour hotel should
Bad Conclusion Match
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.
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