LSAT 12 – Section 4 – Question 03
LSAT 12 - Section 4 - Question 03
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| Question QuickView |
Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT12 S4 Q03 |
+LR
| Most strongly supported +MSS | A
4%
158
B
1%
152
C
5%
160
D
5%
162
E
85%
165
|
130 143 155 |
+Medium | 149.171 +SubsectionMedium |
This is a most strongly supported question, since the stem asks: The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of the following hypotheses?
The stimulus gives us some information about insectivorous plants. These are plants which can trap and digest insects (think Venus flytraps), and we’re told that they can survive in soils that are too poor in minerals for non-insectivorous plants. Interesting! This phenomenon is made even stranger when the next sentence lets us know that insectivorous plants have practically the same mineral requirements! We should infer from this that either the minerals must be coming from somewhere else, or the insectivorous plants are more efficient at getting minerals from poor soil. Our job is to select the answer choice whose hypothesis explains this phenomenon with the least assumptions required. Let’s see what we get!
Answer Choice (A) This doesn’t help our mineral problem, since we still don’t know how having lots of insects around would give the plant its required minerals.
Answer Choice (B) We’ve been told they can survive in these poor soils, but nothing about whether they do particularly well in them. Regardless, this does nothing to explain how they can survive while having the same mineral needs as the plants that can’t survive.
Answer Choice (C) But we’ve been told that the minerals required by the two types of plants are basically the same!
Answer Choice (D) This does nothing to explain our phenomenon, while also making a ton of assumptions. Maybe the areas with poor soil are rarer!
Correct Answer Choice (E) If they can get their minerals from the insects they digest, that would explain the difference in survival ability between them and the plants that don’t eat insects!
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LSAT PrepTest 12 Explanations
Section 1 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
- Question 26
Section 2 - Logic Games
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
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