QUESTION TEXT: Guidelines for constructing new Bonjour hotels:…
QUESTION TYPE: Must Be True
FACTS:
The following are guidelines for constructing new hotels:
- Radiant floor cooling system (“cooling system”) → radiant floor heating system (“heating system”)
- Luxury hotel → heating system
- Region with high summer humidity → no cooling system
ANALYSIS: We’ve been given some conditional statements. We can also take the contrapositives of them, which would look like this:
- No heating system → no cooling system
- No heating system → not luxury hotel
- Cooling system → not region with high summer humidity
We can use these when assessing the answer choices.
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- We don’t know anything about what needs to be in hotels that are not newly constructed. We only have guidelines for the ones that are newly constructed.
- CORRECT. We’re told that the region has high humidity year-round, which includes the summer. That means that there is no cooling system (Fact 3). We are also told that it is a luxury hotel, so that means there is a heating system (Fact 2).
- The hotel not being a luxury hotel tells us nothing. We know what it means if a hotel is a luxury hotel, but can’t infer anything in this case. We also can’t infer anything from the presence of a heating system. We only have rules for what it means if there is no heating system.
- This answer choice tries to say that there should not be a heating system. But we don’t know when there should not be a heating system. We only know when there should be one.
- The fact that there is very low humidity does not tell us whether there should be a cooling system. We only know that high humidity means there cannot be a cooling system.
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