Can big book answers be wrong? Chatgpt thinks so!

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Here is the passage. The questions where I think BB is wrong (and so does chatgpt) are the following:-

Q. It can be inferred from the passage that, in the course of a heating season, the heating capacity of a heat pump is greatest when

(A) heating is least essential
(B) electricity rates are lowest
(C) its compressor runs the fastest (D) outdoor temperatures hold steady (E) the heating demand surges

I argue the answer is d (evidence: Block of 4) and not A (which is listed: . Reason we have no evidence to talk about ‘essential’ )

Q. 20. If the author’s assessment of the use of heat pumps (lines 1-6) is correct, which of the following best expresses the lesson that advertisers should learn from this case?

(A) Do not make exaggerated claims about the products you are trying to promote.

(B) Focus your advertising campaign on vague analogies and veiled implications instead of on facts.

(C) Do not use facts in your advertising that will strain the prospective client’s ability to believe.

(D) Do not assume in your advertising that the prospective clients know even the most ele- mentary scientific principles.

(E) Concentrate your advertising firmly on finan- cially relevant issues such as price discounts and efficiency of operation.

Acc to me, the answer should be A (reason: the author agrees the claim is inflated.) The books says its c (I doubt because a fact is indisputable whereas the author themselves has said that this is no way the case!)

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I think you have to make some common sense inferences here. Heating would be least essential when its warm outside right?

Where’s your evidence for D?

Where? The idea is that the claim is misunderstood

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No not even remotely written by the author suggest that its not at all the case.
Where is your evidence for misunderstood?

also, if we make common sense guesses, isnt that against word of zues?

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What do you mean by this?

Because the claim is that the heat pumps can produce 2x thermal energy from 1x electrical energy. This is misunderstood as them breaking the laws of energy, but they are not factoring in the heat energy coming from the outside. The claim is not false, its being misinterpreted.

Common sense and specific outside knowledge are different. But you’re right, it’s a fine line.

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Whoa! Thank you Ganesh. It was such a hard passage and I completely misunderstood it.
What do you suggest I do to avoid making such errors?

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What was your evidence for D for the first question? The easiest way is to use Attack From 2 Sides.

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Hi, may i ask why is the answer for 20 not “D - Do not assume in your advertising that the prospective client know even the most elementary scientific principles”.

“assume in your advertising” being, from the passage, “advertiser’s claims that heat pumps can…”

“even the most elementary scientific principles” being, from the passage, “contradict the principles of conservation of energy”

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Hi, can you check this video please?

The question should be covered in here somewhere