Self-study
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.
Summary
The guidelines set out some conditional relationships that apply when new Bonjour hotels are being constructed:
(1) If radiant floor cooling is to be installed or if it’s a luxury hotel, then radiant floor heating is to be installed.
(2) If radiant floor cooling is to be installed, then it’s not a region with high humidity in the summer.
Find or Complete the Application
We need to find the right application. The guidelines can support conclusions about when we should include heating and when we should not include cooling for the construction of new Bonjour hotels.
We can conclude we should include heating if the hotel also has a cooling system or if it’s a luxury hotel.
We can conclude we should not include cooling if the hotel doesn’t have heating or if it’s somewhere with high humidity in summer.
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a
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Doesn’t trigger the rule. The guidelines in the stimulus only apply to constructing new hotels. So we have no support for reaching any conclusions about what should be done in hotels that aren’t being newly constructed.
b
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It’s a luxury hotel, so we can conclude we should include heating. And it’s somewhere that has high humidity throughout the whole year, meaning there’s high humidity in the summer, so we can conclude we should not include cooling.
c
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Doesn’t trigger the rule. We can conclude a hotel should not have a cooling system if either (1) it doesn’t have a heating system or (2) it’s somewhere with high humidity in the summer. (C) doesn’t satisfy either of those conditions, so we can’t reach this conclusion.
d
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Wrong conclusion. We can only conclude when a hotel should have a heating system—not when it shouldn’t have a heating system. In fact, the conclusion here is anti-supported, because we know luxury hotels should always include a heating system.
e
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Wrong conclusion. We can only conclude when a hotel shouldn’t have a cooling system—not when it should. The absence of high humidity in the summer is necessary, not sufficient, for including a cooling system. So knowing that the hotel is somewhere with low humidity doesn’t tell us whether to include cooling.