During the project review meeting, Summer asked the facilitator to change the venue to a different conference room. She did this because the room had a window overlooking the main road, and the traffic below was extremely noisy. Why did Summer make the request?

a. Summer was distracted by the sounds.
b. Summer could not process all the relational meanings of the noise.
c. Summer was unable to understand the explicit messages of the noise.
d. Summer got nervous listening to new information coming from the road.


Answer: a. Summer was distracted by the sounds.

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