LSAT 116 – Section 3 – Question 02

LSAT 116 - Section 3 - Question 02

June 2004

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT116 S3 Q02
+LR
Except +Exc
Strengthen +Streng
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Eliminating Options +ElimOpt
A
4%
159
B
0%
149
C
1%
152
D
1%
162
E
94%
163
120
122
138
 +Easiest 146.244 +SubsectionMedium

The Fenwicks returned home from a trip to find two broken bottles on their kitchen floor. There was no sign of forced entry and nothing in the house appeared to have been taken. Although the Fenwicks have a pet cat that had free run of the house while they were away, the Fenwicks hypothesized that they had left a back door unlocked and that neighborhood children had entered through it, attempted to raid the kitchen, and left after breaking the bottles.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The Fenwicks hypothesize that they’d left the back door open and had their home disturbed by local children, who broke bottles in the process. No evidence is offered for this claim.

Notable Assumptions
The Fenwicks assume that there must be some reason why this rather unusual explanation is superior to the more obvious one: that their cat broke the bottles.

A
A neighbor thought he had seen the Fenwicks’ back door closing while the Fenwicks were away.
A neighbor saw the Fenwicks’ back door close. Thus, the Fenwicks have reason to believe someone went into their home.
B
When the Fenwicks returned home, they found children’s footprints on the back porch that had not been there before their trip.
Children had evidently been to their home. Perhaps they took their shoes off at the door before attempting to raid the kitchen.
C
The two bottles that the Fenwicks found broken on their kitchen floor had been in the refrigerator when the Fenwicks left on vacation.
The bottles hadn’t been left out, so the cat couldn’t have broken the bottles. Someone else must’ve broken them.
D
There have been several recent burglaries in the Fenwicks’ neighborhood in which neighborhood children were suspected.
Local children are known to break into houses. It’s not ridiculous to suspect them in yet another break-in.
E
The Fenwicks returned home from their trip later than they had planned.
Irrelevant. We don’t care when they came home from their trip. We care about who broke the bottles in their kitchen.

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