Because of the lack of available rooms, The Day, the most popular hote

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Because of the lack of available rooms, The Day, the most popular hotel for accommodating wedding guests in Brambia, usually transfers some of its guests to another local hotel called My Day. This wedding season, although The Day has the usual number of guests per wedding to accommodate and the same number of wedding bookings, it will probably have to hire more rooms than usual from My Day as some rooms in The Day have been closed for renovation.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends

A. My Day will have the same number of original guests as it had last wedding season

B. This season The Day will have the same number of children to accommodate as wedding guests as it had in the last season.

C. The number of guests accommodated per room in The Day will not go up significantly

D. Both hotels can accommodate the same number of guests per room.

E. The number of wedding bookings at The Day is greater than or equal to the number at My Day.

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sumit99kr · Answer

Argument- This wedding season number of guests and number of bookings will be same approximately.
Premise- Some rooms in The Day have been closed for renovation.
Conclusion-The Day will probably have to hire more rooms than usual from My Day.
For the conclusion to hold true The Day must have been packed to capacity with guests in the rooms available (minus the number of rooms closed for renovation) and since it cannot accommodate more guests per room, it needs to hire more rooms than usual.

Hence I would go with C.

mitranevergivesup · Answer

C- Because if the number of guests per room in The day goes up, then they would not need to Hire additional rooms in My day

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ninja_in_progress · Answer

Why is A not the correct answer here? 
 My Day will have the same number of original guests as it had last wedding season

If My Day has the same no of guests only then The Day can book rooms similar what they did in past.

Vaishbab · Answer

Hey, I think A cannot be considered here because there is no mention of My Day's capacity in the passage. As a result, it isn't a factor here. For all we know, My Day could have an infinite number of rooms available.

glagad · Answer

When I pre-thought the problem, I thought that the capacity of My Day is perhaps limited, and conclusion can break, if there aren't more rooms available in My Day at all. Based on that, I selected A since it seemed to me that A is pointing at same (inflow) guests as of last wedding season.

What I missed though is that inflow might be same but the actual capacity might vary.

Hence, A isn't a good candidate.

Sujithz001 · Answer

Hey expert,

I'm finding it difficult in understanding how C could be the ans. Imagine, the number of guests per room doesn't go up significantly, but goes up slightly - it'll still change the number of extra rooms required right?

Please help me clear this doubt. Thanks a lot in advance.

Sujithz001 · Answer

KarishmaB   bb   Bunuel

Hey,

I'm finding it difficult in understanding how C could be the ans. Imagine, the number of guests per room doesn't go up significantly, but goes up slightly - it can still change the number of extra rooms required right?

Please help me clear this doubt.

Thanks a lot in advance!

glagad · Answer

Sujithz001

If the #people/room increase slightly (like you said) -> Can you be sure that we need less rooms from My day? IMO, no, we can't be sure. We are not sure if its good enough to offset the demand this wedding season.

If the no. of people/room increases significantly -> We can be sure that this has helped The Day offset the demand due to lack of rooms with the capacity and thus require less rooms from My Day.

You can assume some numbers here.

But IMO, more than playing with the word "significantly" vs "some", try to focus on the meaning of this assumption. 
Apply the negation test, like I have done above. You will see that this option is to be considered.

Since you dont have another option with the word "some", you can safely go for this option,imo

KarishmaB · Answer

"significantly" means that it will have a meaningful impact. It doesn't mean that the number will be high or low. It means it will be significant as per context. So if you negate it, you get: C. The number of guests accommodated per room in The Day will go up significantly This means that more guests will get accommodated per room in The Day such that you will need fewer rooms in My Day. Then my conclusion goes for a toss. So the assumption is not just that "the number of guests per room will not go up," it is that "the number of guests per room will not go up significantly" Answer (C) Here is another assumption discussion: https://youtu.be/0j4tovGifIg

ajaynandakumar7 · Answer

Since all the parameters are similar to the last season and unless the number of guests that can be accommodated in a room in The Day is significantly increased, they would probably have to hire more rooms in My Day. The logical option would be C

Sujithz001 · Answer

Understood  KarishmaB  !

And thanks  glagad

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