Safety officials recommend installing carbon monoxide monitors in ever

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Safety officials recommend installing carbon monoxide monitors in every home. These monitors detect the colorless, soundless, odorless gas that can be lethal to humans and pets if inhaled in sufficient quantities. Since forewarned homeowners could flee their homes in the case of carbon monoxide leaks, many of the poisonings and deaths that would otherwise occur could be avoided if homes were required to have carbon monoxide monitors.

The answer to which of the following questions would be most important in determining whether implementing the proposal would be likely to achieve the desired result?

A. How often do carbon monoxide leaks occur within homes?

B. Where in the home would the monitors be located?

C. Do the carbon monoxide levels at which the monitors signal an alert allow enough time for residents to escape to a ventilated area?

D. How soon after dangerous levels of carbon monoxide are dissipated can homeowners return to their homes?

E. Can the monitors detect other household hazards such as fire?

gloomybison · Answer

Ok, so safety officials recommend installing CO monitors because these monitors can detect this gas and forewarn the homeowner before any poisonings or deaths occur.
We need to pick a question from below to evaluate the soundness of the officials' argument

A. How often do carbon monoxide leaks occur within homes?
We do not really care about the occurrence frequency of CO gas. We are trying to understand whether implementing this monitoring devices will prevent poisonings/deaths. Leaks may occur once a year or once a week for all we care...

B. Where in the home would the monitors be located?
We are concerned if this device will help prevent deaths/poisonings we don't care about the location of this monitor. Sure, you may say it would be important to place it where it will be of most use but then we don't have any information whether the location affects the efficiency of the device...

C. Do the carbon monoxide levels at which the monitors signal an alert allow enough time for residents to escape to a ventilated area?
This is crucial, because officals recommended that using this device will contribute to preventing deaths/poisonings, but now imagine if the warning signal was not given in time and you get to inhale this toxic gas sufficient enough to poison you before you can escape, this would shatter the argument because installing this device won't really save people...

D. How soon after dangerous levels of carbon monoxide are dissipated can homeowners return to their homes?
Argument is concerned about alerting people before they are harmed by the gas. We literally don't care if it takes an hour or a month to return back to homes

E. Can the monitors detect other household hazards such as fire?
We are concerned about the CO gas not fire. Officials recommended it to prevent CO poisonings not fire or any other hazards...

So, IMO, the answer is C

mSKR · Answer

Safety officials recommend installing carbon monoxide monitors in every home. These monitors detect the colorless, soundless, odorless gas that can be lethal to humans and pets if inhaled in sufficient quantities. Since forewarned homeowners could flee their homes in the case of carbon monoxide leaks, many of the poisonings and deaths that would otherwise occur could be avoided if homes were required to have carbon monoxide monitors.

The answer to which of the following questions would be most important in determining whether implementing the proposal would be likely to achieve the desired result?

>>it is good to install such equipents but question comes to mind whether it can be proved worthy. 
what if it is installed but nothign can be done at that time as it is too late, so such installation is not useful.

A.  How  often do carbon monoxide leaks occur within homes?

B.  Where  in the home would the monitors be located?

C. Do the carbon monoxide levels at which the monitors signal an alert allow en ough time  for residents to escape to a ventilated area?

D. How soon after dangerous levels of carbon monoxide are dissipated can homeowners  return  to their homes?

E. Can the monitors detect other household hazards such as  fire ?

Only C is relevant question

hence C

SohGMAT2020 · Answer

Safety officials recommend installing carbon monoxide monitors in every home. These monitors detect the colorless, soundless, odorless gas that can be lethal to humans and pets if inhaled in sufficient quantities. Since forewarned homeowners could flee their homes in the case of carbon monoxide leaks,  many of the poisonings and deaths that would otherwise occur could be avoided if homes were required to have carbon monoxide monitors.

The answer to which of the following questions would be most important in determining whether implementing the proposal would be likely to achieve the desired result?

A. How often do carbon monoxide leaks occur within homes?  : The frequency of the leaks gives us no further information on whether the proposal of installing CO monitors will be successful : Incorrect

B. Where in the home would the monitors be located?  The location of the monitors also does not add anything to help determine whether the proposal will be successful. Incorrect

C. Do the carbon monoxide levels at which the monitors signal an alert allow enough time for residents to escape to a ventilated area?  Yes! If there is enough time, then the residents will safely escape otherwise the proposal will not be successful : Correct

D. How soon after dangerous levels of carbon monoxide are dissipated can homeowners return to their homes?  : When the residents can come back is not the concern in this argument: Incorrect

E. Can the monitors detect other household hazards such as fire?  : The concerns of the argument is only to determine the CO leaks not anything else: Incorrect
 
  IMO C is correct

aishu0091 · Answer

P1: carbon monoxide monitors recommended.
P2: In case of CO leaks, homeowners could flee their homes (because --> monitors will warn the individuals of the leak allowing them to escape their homes)

The answer to which of the following questions would be most important in determining whether implementing the proposal would be likely to achieve the desired result?

A. How often do carbon monoxide leaks occur within homes? - This does not matter because irrespective of the regularity of the leaks, if one does does occur, people would die. the end result of a CO leak is loss of lives. Incorrect.

B. Where in the home would the monitors be located? - Who cares, this does not change anything. Incorrect

C. Do the carbon monoxide levels at which the monitors signal an alert allow enough time for residents to escape to a ventilated area? - sounds good because if I takes the monitor a very long time to alert the homeowners, there is no point in installing it because they wouldn't have enough time to escape the place their homes. seems good, keep!

D. How soon after dangerous levels of carbon monoxide are dissipated can homeowners return to their homes? - the goal of the proposal is to save peoples lives. Yes staying outside your house sucks but either way you're alive at least. so eliminate.

E. Can the monitors detect other household hazards such as fire? - the proposal deals with CO leaks, who said anything about a fire. Eliminate.

Answer: C!

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