While setting your air conditioner to automatically cool a room to 69° F, you realize that the same set-point principle applies to the way
A) you fill a flat bicycle tire with air.
B) our brain systems maintain body weight.
C) males and females carry on their species.
D) our bodies recover from severe colds.

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The set-point principle applies to the way our brain systems maintain body weight, where there is a predetermined weight set by our brain and our bodies work to maintain that weight. This is similar to setting an air conditioner to a specific temperature and it working to maintain that temperature. The other options (A, C, and D) do not directly relate to the set-point principle.

While Setting Your Air Conditioner to Automatically Cool a Room