Question

select the correct answer.
lev is organizing a workshop for the city arts council on finding affordable housing for student artists. lev considers his audience—the students—to be laypersons. what makes this audience fall under the category of laypersons?
a. they dont have the proper qualifications to attend a workshop about affordable housing.
b. they dont have much prior knowledge about affordable housing in the city.
c. they dont have the necessary reasoning skills to find affordable housing on their own.
d. they dont have an understanding of affordability in the context of housing.

Explanation:

A layperson is someone with little or no prior knowledge in a specific area. For the workshop on affordable housing for student artists, the students (audience) being laypersons means they lack much prior knowledge about affordable housing in the city. Option A is incorrect as qualifications aren't the focus of being a layperson. Option C is wrong as reasoning skills aren't the key here. Option D is too narrow; "affordability in housing context" is part of the broader "affordable housing in the city" knowledge. So B is correct.

Answer:

B. They don't have much prior knowledge about affordable housing in the city.