LSAT 124 – Section 2 – Question 19

LSAT 124 - Section 2 - Question 19

December 2007

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT124 S2 Q19	+LR +Exp	Except +Exc Strengthen +Streng Conditional Reasoning +CondR	A 7% 160 B 16% 158 C 7% 158 D 7% 162 E 64% 164	137 154 170	+Harder	145.571 +SubsectionMedium

Renting cars from dealerships is less expensive than renting cars from national rental firms. But to take advantage of dealership rates, tourists must determine which local dealerships offer rentals, and then pay for long taxi rides between the airport and those dealerships. So renting from dealerships rather than national rental firms is generally more worthwhile for local residents than for tourists.

Summarize Argument

Renting a car from dealerships instead of national rental firms benefits local residents more than tourists. Residents can benefit from dealerships’ lower rates without dealing with the disadvantages tourists face.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that there are no other significant perks to renting from a dealership that a tourist would enjoy that could potentially make renting from a dealership more worthwhile.

To encourage future business, many car dealerships drop off and pick up rental cars for local residents at no charge.

This strengthens the argument by providing an extra perk that dealerships offer to local residents. We already know why local residents like dealerships—this just makes it better.

Tourists renting cars from national rental firms almost never need to pay for taxi rides to or from the airport.

This strengthens the argument by providing another reason why renting from a dealership is less worthwhile for a tourist. If they rented from a dealership they’d have to pay for a taxi from the airport. Renting from a rental firm saves them this cost.

Travel agents generally are unable to inform tourists of which local car dealerships offer rentals.

This strengthens the argument by offering support for the premise that tourists must determine which dealerships offer rentals—travel agents are unable to provide information, and tourists must research it themselves.

Many local residents know of local car dealerships that offer low-priced rentals.

This strengthens the argument by providing another reason why dealerships are more worthwhile for local residents: they already know which dealerships offer cheap rentals.

For local residents, taxi rides to car dealerships from their homes or workplaces are usually no less expensive than taxi rides to national rental firms.

This weakens the argument by attacking the idea that tourists are more disadvantaged than local residents by the cost of commuting to pick up their rental car. (E) says local residents also face this issue, and that dealerships don’t actually benefit local residents in this way.

LSAT 124 – Section 2 – Question 19

LSAT 124 - Section 2 - Question 19

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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

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