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 complex were modified to restrict maximum water flow to one

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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 complex 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 a considerable savings for Sunnyside Corporation, since the corporation 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.

The owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment complex wrote a letter to his manager proposing the modification of showerheads of all twelve buildings in the complex in order to help Sunnyside Corporation to increase its profits. The recommendation is made because the previous modification of showerheads in the first three building has restricted the water flow to one-third of its original volume. Hence, he believed that such modification will enable the company to save a substantial cost. The recommendation seems persuasive at a first glance, but specific questions need to be answered in order t...

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 611, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...dences after an observation in a longer period of time. Besides, the owner also needs to provi...
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Line 9, column 126, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...ey on water bill and create more profit in future. Nevertheless, questions regarding the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, regarding, so, still, then, therefore, third, thus, in brief, in fact, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 40.0 12.9106741573 310% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2867.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 562.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10142348754 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86893614481 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95948129361 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.430604982206 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 908.1 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 16.0 4.99550561798 320% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.9624010756 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.458333333 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4166666667 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.79166666667 5.21951772744 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175595590142 0.243740707755 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0518047372026 0.0831039109588 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0814804627782 0.0758088955206 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108168169787 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109464772559 0.0667264976115 164% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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