Five years ago, the local university built two new dormitories through different contractors: Aleph
Construction and Gimmel Builders. The buildings were nearly identical, though it cost Gimmel Builders
approximately 20 percent more to construct their dormitory. Aleph’s dormitory, however, has required
approximately 10 percent more in maintenance costs per year over the past five years. Therefore, to
construct their new dormitory with the lowest overall cost, the local university should hire Aleph
Construction.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions in the expert’s claim. Be
sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the
argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author claims, based on the assumption of percentage, that Aleph construction require 10% more on repair and maintenance after construction is over, whereas, Gimmel Builder cost 20% higher on construction work. As, 20% is more than 10, therefore, next project shall goes to Aleph Construction, this year. The may or may not be true, which can be examine by further analysis as followed.
Firstly, expert have assumed that, since, 10 percent is less than 20, Aleph Construction will cost less on this year. The percentage, nevertheless, cannot be compare only if different proportion belong to just one total cost, which in this case is not same, therefor it can be wrong. Take a mathematical instance to prove this statement false, 50 percent of 1000 is 500, but 20 % of 10000 is 2000. Hence, even if twenty percentage is less than 50, overall per portion is four times the other. In this case, total cost of construction and maintenance is not mentioned, that undermine the expert's assumption.
Secondly, a total cost of any construction involve many various costs, such as, primary cost that is directly incurred in connection with building material and labour, supplementary cost consisting other sanitary and fitting charges, and repair and maintenance cost. To determine the total cost, thus, all these costs must be deemed. Only 10 more percentage, even if cost of maintain building countervail, does not sufficiently evaluate final cost. In order to give standard conclusion, such criteria must taken in account.
Finally, efficiency of work is not given, even Gummel Builders cost more, it may possible that they construct in right time or early, nonetheless, other firm may not be able to achieve task in time. In addition to that, material used by first corporation is of superior quality and increase life span of building. For demonstration, grade of concrete in building is 25 (better the lower number like 15 or 20) by Gimmel and 20% by other, duduction total cost. At the end, first firm, though, it cost more, does better job than other. To compare more accurately all factors must be visualize before any decision.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 353 350
No. of Characters: 1711 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.335 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.847 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.73 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.765 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.077 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.765 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.525 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 588, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'experts'' or 'expert's'?
Suggestion: experts'; expert's
...ce is not mentioned, that undermine the experts assumption. Secondly, a total cost...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 507, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have taken' or 'take'?
Suggestion: have taken; take
...standard conclusion, such criteria must taken in account. Finally, efficiency of...
^^^^^
Line 13, column 610, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... must be visualize before any decision.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, secondly, therefore, thus, whereas, in addition, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1798.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 353.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09348441926 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81283457868 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580736543909 0.468620217663 124% => OK
syllable_count: 532.8 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5666793139 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.764705882 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7647058824 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.05882352941 5.70786347227 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191686065637 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0633270258442 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487827918647 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123536311534 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0157408147104 0.0628817314937 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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