The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex
to its manager.
"One month ago, all the showerheads in the first three buildings of the Sunnyside Towers complexes were modified to restrict maximum water flow to one-third of what it used to be. Although actual readings of water usage before and after the adjustment are not yet available, the change will obviously result in considerable savings for Sunnyside Corporation, since the corporations must pay for water each month. Except for a few complaints about low water pressure, no problems with showers have been reported since the adjustment. I predict that modifying showerheads to restrict water flow throughout all twelve buildings in the Sunnyside Towers complex will increase our profits even more dramatically."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
In the letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers Apartment, the owner avers that to reduce the cost of water usage, few modifications were made a month prior. Also, the owner assumes that performing similar modifications in the remaining twelve buildings would be highly cost effective and would bring lots of profits to the complex. To decide whether this prediction will have profitable results for both the corporation and the people living in it, we need to analyse and evaluate three points critically.
Firstly, we need to understand under what circumstances the owner took the decision to change the water supply quantity by modifying the showerheads. Changing the showerheads to reduce the amount of water flown might be proven to be an effective change but it is not the only thing to decide whether there will be reduction in the water usage, as there are other factors too like water leakage in other equipments like water tank, supply lines, faucets in the kitchens and washrooms. Based on this factor this may not result in a very large margin of profit.
Secondly, it is necessary to inspect the timings of the water supply. Is water supply available for twenty-four hours or any other particular timings are followed to allow the water supply. Based on this factor, we can connect this to the previous factor that is leakage problems in equipment. If water is supplied twenty-four hours then this may result in overnight leakage like faucets, tanks and supply lines. In this circumstance, reducing the water supply only by modifying showerheads may not be proven as effective as it seems theoretically.
Thirdly, the owner himself claimed in the letter that there were few complaints regarding low water pressure which shows that this decision can definitely lead to extra expenses over repairs and reinstallation of the damaged equipment. So, this raises a big concern for the corporation that modifying the water supply facility shouldn’t cause any collateral damage through added expenses for incomplete work. Finally, by considering this point it is evident that this prediction to bring profits for the corporation doesn’t hold water.
To conclude, I don't agree that this decision is helpful for the corporation to have profits and supply benefits to the people living there. Instead, the corporation should initially do an adequate amount of research about the water usage of the complex based on different factors like timings of water supply, possible leakages in the complex buildings and equipment. After completing this survey and research a decision must be taken.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 2133 1500
No. of Different Words: 196 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.019 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.66 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.933 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.581 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 10, column 16, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...doesn’t hold water. To conclude, I dont agree that this decision is helpful for...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2194.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1990521327 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73224290226 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478672985782 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 678.6 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.381023246 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.058823529 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8235294118 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76470588235 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157364045637 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.055865957542 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622768205382 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0988620180645 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0566423595101 0.0628817314937 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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