Homework draft

Inference allows you to put pieces of evidence together to come to a logical conclusion. Recently I noticed that there were relatively frequent puddles of water that would appear in the basement of the house that I rent. It only happened when it would rain outside, and the size of the puddle would vary based on the amount of water we would get on a given day. This let me rule out that it wasn’t some sort of internal leak and that the water had to have come from the outside. As it continued to occur, I saw that there was always a large wet spot on the wall adjacent to the puddle on the floor. The wet spot lead directly up to a window at the top of the wall. With this information in mind, I figured that the water had to be coming in from that specific window some how. Following this thought, I checked the outside of the house where the small window was located. Covering it was a plastic rain guard riddled with cracks and holes. When I looked into the area where the rain guard was supposed to cover, I saw there was a build up of water. With all of this information in mind, I was able to confidently say that this was the source of the water in my basement.