LSAT 14 – Section 4 – Question 06
LSAT 14 - Section 4 - Question 06
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| Question QuickView |
Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT14 S4 Q06 |
+LR
| Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE | A
92%
165
B
1%
156
C
1%
157
D
1%
153
E
5%
157
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130 140 150 |
+Easier | 148.739 +SubsectionMedium |
This is a resolve reconcile explain question, though it may be difficult to identify. The phenomenon we are trying to explain is how the statistic could be accurate if the conclusion isn’t, i.e. how could emergency room visits grow if heroin use remained constant or declined. The question stem asks us: Which one of the following, if true, would account for the statistic above without supporting the author’s conclusion?
The statistic mentioned in the stem is that the amount of emergency room visits by heroin users increased by 20% during the 80s. The author concludes that this was a result of an increase in the use of heroin, but we want to explain why the phenomenon identified by the statistic occurred without supporting this conclusion, so our hypothesis can’t involve an increase in heroin use. We are therefore looking for an alternative hypothesis. Let’s see what we get in the answer choices.
Correct Answer Choice (A) Bingo! This answer gives us a reason for why more heroin users would end up in the hospital even if there wasn’t an increase in heroin use, namely, increased violence from the drug trade.
Answer Choice (B) If it reduced the risk of infection, we would expect a decrease in the number of hospital visits.
Answer Choice (C) Interesting, but this does nothing to explain why there was such an increase in the first place.
Answer Choice (D) Remember, we don’t want to support the conclusion that heroin use increased!
Answer Choice (E) This gives us a more detailed explanation of what specific issues caused heroin users to go to the emergency room, but not why the amount of them who did so increased. This is a more complete description of the phenomenon, not a hypothesis for why it occurred.
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LSAT PrepTest 14 Explanations
Section 1 - Logic Games
Section 2 - 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
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
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- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
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