LSAT 104 – Section 4 – Question 08

LSAT 104 - Section 4 - Question 08

December 1998

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PT104 S4 Q08
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
A
11%
164
B
73%
170
C
8%
164
D
4%
166
E
4%
161
140
154
169
 +Harder 147.438 +SubsectionMedium

People always seem to associate high prices of products with high quality. But price is not necessarily an indicator of quality. The best teas are often no more expensive than the lower-quality teas.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why are high-quality teas not more expensive than low-quality teas, even though they differ in quality?

Objective
The right answer will be a hypothesis that explains a difference between high-quality teas and low-quality teas. This difference will account for why both types of tea are priced similarly, even though one might expect high-quality teas to cost more.

A
Packaging and advertising triple the price of all teas.
This would have a uniform effect on all teas, regardless of quality. The right answer will offer a difference between high- and low- quality teas.
B
Most people buy low-quality tea, thus keeping its price up.
This explains the phenomenon by introducing an additional factor that affects price: demand. Since most people buy low-quality tea rather than high-quality tea, the increased demand drives the price of lower-quality tea up to the level of high-quality tea.
C
All types of tea are subject to high import tariffs.
This would have a uniform effect on all teas, regardless of quality. The right answer will offer a difference between high- and low- quality teas.
D
Low-quality teas are generally easier to obtain than high-quality teas.
The relative accessibility of low-quality teas does not explain why they are priced similarly to high-quality teas. One might even expect that the easier availability of low-quality teas would make them cheaper than high-quality teas.
E
The price of tea generally does not vary from region to region.
(E) does not offer any information to distinguish between high- and low-quality teas. The price of tea being generally the same across regions does not offer insight into why high- and low-quality teas are the same price.

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