PrepTest C2, Section 2, Question 7
Builder: Within ten years, most of the new homes constructed in North America will have steel frameworks rather than wood ones. After all, two-by-fours and two-by-sixesÔøΩthe sizes of lumber most commonly used in home constructionÔøΩare deteriorating in quality and increasing in cost, while environment-friendly steel is decreasing in cost. In addition, unlike wood, steel will not warp, rot, or split.
Builder: Within ten years, most of the new homes constructed in North America will have steel frameworks rather than wood ones. After all, two-by-fours and two-by-sixesÔøΩthe sizes of lumber most commonly used in home constructionÔøΩare deteriorating in quality and increasing in cost, while environment-friendly steel is decreasing in cost. In addition, unlike wood, steel will not warp, rot, or split.
Builder: Within ten years, most of the new homes constructed in North America will have steel frameworks rather than wood ones. After all, two-by-fours and two-by-sixesÔøΩthe sizes of lumber most commonly used in home constructionÔøΩare deteriorating in quality and increasing in cost, while environment-friendly steel is decreasing in cost. In addition, unlike wood, steel will not warp, rot, or split.
Builder: Within ten years, most of the new homes constructed in North America will have steel frameworks rather than wood ones. After all, two-by-fours and two-by-sixesÔøΩthe sizes of lumber most commonly used in home constructionÔøΩare deteriorating in quality and increasing in cost, while environment-friendly steel is decreasing in cost. In addition, unlike wood, steel will not warp, rot, or split.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the builder's reasoning?
Over the next ten years, labor costs in the home construction industry are expected to rise significantly.
Steel-framed homes do not have to be treated with pesticides or other chemicals that can contribute to indoor air pollution.
Because lumber prices have increased over the last decade, currently most new homes are built with steel frameworks.
Training home construction workers to work with steel is very costly.
The number of houses built each year is expected to decrease over the next decade.
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