LSAT 15 – Section 2 – Question 10
LSAT 15 - Section 2 - Question 10
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT15 S2 Q10 |
+LR
| Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE | A
1%
155
B
1%
160
C
99%
164
D
0%
137
E
0%
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120 121 131 |
+Easiest | 144.118 +SubsectionEasier |
We know this is a resolve reconcile explain question, because it asks: Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain why the agricultural peoples of western Asia never returned to hunting and gathering?
The stimulus begins with some context; ten thousand years ago many of the communities in Western Asia switched from hunting and gathering to agriculture. Interestingly, this lead to poor diets and health issues, yet the people never returned to hunting and gathering. Our job is to explain why the communities stuck with agriculture when all we know so far is that it made their lives worse. A good answer choice will give a reason for their committal to agriculture that is compatible with the health effects mentioned in the stimulus. On to the answers:
Answer Choice (A) This doesn’t explain their committal to agriculture, it actually just makes the situation stranger by explicitly stating hunting and gathering food was still an option.
Answer Choice (B) Interesting! But this feature of both food methods doesn’t explain the committal to one over the other.
Correct Answer Choice (C) Here we go, this gives us a reason why hunting and gathering food just wasn’t going to cut it anymore, even if agriculture had negative trade offs. If one option isn’t going to work anymore, then sticking to the other makes sense.
Answer Choice (D) This tells us the phenomenon was widespread, but doesn’t provide an explanation for why it occurred in the first place.
Answer Choice (E) This just seems like another downside to agriculture, which makes the committal of the communities even less intelligible.
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LSAT PrepTest 15 Explanations
Section 1 - 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
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
Section 3 - 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
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