A village's ordinances require residents to exercise reasonable care t

­A village's ordinances require residents to exercise reasonable care to avoid disturbing their neighbors with noise. The village council may impose fines for noise violations in response to formal complaints. But unless there have been formal complaints from multiple residents, the council will not consider a complaint if the complaining individual has not attempted to resolve the issue directly with the alleged violator or with the violator's landlord if the violator is a renter. The council's first action in response to any formal verbal or written complaint that they are considering will be to offer to mediate the dispute.

Select for 1 and for 2 two different events such that the guidelines most clearly indicate that if the event selected for 1 occurs, then the event selected for 2 either will occur or has already occurred. Make only two selections, one in each column.­

An effecient way to answer this question is to check each choice as a possible answer for 1 by seeing for each choice whether one of the other choices has occurred or will occur, and thus is the answer for 2.

In going through the choices, we have to be super careful since there will likely be trap choices that are close to correct or seem correct for some reason. So, we have to make sure that the answer for 2 will for sure have happened or happen if 1 happens.

The council imposes a fine for noise violation.

Scanning the passage for "imposes a fine," we don't see anything that will happen afterward.

We do see that the council "may impose fines for noise violations in response to formal complaints." However, "The council considers a formal written noise complaint" does not have to have happened before "The council imposes a fine for a noise violation" because the passage mentions a "formal verbal or written complaint." So, before the council imposes a fine, the councial may consider a formal verbal complaint and not a written one.

Eliminate for 1.

The council considers a formal written noise complaint.

Scanning the passage for "considers a formal written noise complaint," we see in the passage "the council will not consider a complaint if the complaining individual has not attempted to resolve the issue directly with the alleged violator or with the violator's landlord if the violator is a renter."

So, before the council considers a complaint, two things could have occurred: the complaining individual has attempted to resolve the issue directly with the alleged violator or the complaining individual has attempted to resolve the issue with the violator's landlord if the violator is a renter.

So, it's not certain that before "The council considers a formal written noise complaint, "The complaining individual attempts to resolve the issue with the alleged violator," because the complaining indivdual could have attempteod to resolve the complaint with the landlord instead.

At the same time, regarding "The council considers a formal written noise complaint," we also see the following in the passage: "The council's first action in response to any formal verbal or written complaint that they are considering will be to offer to mediate the dispute."

So, the next choice, "The council offers to mediate a dispute about noise," will for sure occur after "The council considers a formal written noise complaint."

Thus, "The council considers a formal written noise complaint," works for 1 and "The council offers to mediate a dispute about noise," works for 2.

We can now check the other choices to confirm that no others work for 1 and 2 to ensure that we've chosen the correct answers.

The complaining individual attempts to resolve the issue with the alleged violator.

This choice does not work for 1 because the passage doesn't mention anything that has happened before this and because the passage does not mention anything that will for sure happen after this. After all, the passage says only that "the council will not consider a complaint if the complaining individual has not attempted to resolve the issue directly with the alleged violator."

The fact that the council the council will not consider a complaint if the complaining individual has not attempted to resolve the issue does not mean that the council will for sure consider the complaint if the complaining individual has attempted to resolve the issue.

Eliminate for 1.

The council offers to mediate a dispute about noise.

This choice does not work for 1 because the passage does not say that the council will offer to mediate a dispute only if something else has happened, and the passage does not say what will happen after the council offers to mediate a dispute.

Eliminate for 1.

The complaining individual contacts the alleged violator's landlord.

This choice doesn't say anything that has happened before a complaining individual contacts the landlord, and also, the passage doesn't say anything that will for sure happen after the individual contacts the landlord. It says only that "the council will not consider a complaint if the complaining individual has not attempted to resolve the issue directly ... with the violator's landlord." The fact that the council will not consider a complaint if the individual has not contacted the landlord does not mean that the council will consider if it the individual has contacted the landlord.

Eliminate for 1.

Correct answer: The council considers a formal written noise complaint., The council offers to mediate a dispute about noise.