Historians of North American architecture who have studied early nineteenth–century houses with wooden floors have ob...

yckim2180 on May 12, 2021

Help please

Could you please explain why the answer is B?

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Emil-Kunkin on October 9 at 09:09PM

The author thinks that since big houses had narrower floorboards, the narrow floorboards were a status symbol. B is able to strengthen the argument since it eliminates an alternative cause. Perhaps the narrow floorboards were simply cheaper, and since bigger houses have a greater amount of floor area to cover, the main reason that big houses used the narrower boards were that it was simply much cheaper given their large surface areas. B tells us this is not the case.