LSAT 126 – Section 1 – Question 10

LSAT 126 - Section 1 - Question 10

October 2008

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT126 S1 Q10
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
A
6%
155
B
82%
164
C
1%
150
D
10%
157
E
2%
151
140
148
157
 +Medium 146.126 +SubsectionMedium

Unlike many machines that are perfectly useful in isolation from others, fax machines must work with other fax machines. Thus, in the fax industry, the proliferation of incompatible formats, which resulted from the large number of competing manufacturers, severely limited the usefulness—and hence the commercial viability—of fax technology until the manufacturers agreed to adopt a common format for their machines.

Summary
Fax machines are only useful with other fax machines. The proliferation of incompatible formats from manufacturer to manufacturer severely limits the usefulness of fax machines. This occurred until manufacturers standardized a common format for their fax machines.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
In some industries it is better for competitors to cooperate with each other in some circumstances.

A
Whenever machines are dependent on other machines of the same type, competition among manufacturers is damaging to the industry.
This answer is unsupported. The stimulus is limited to fax machines as an example. We don’t know anything about machines in any other industry.
B
In some industries it is in the interest of competitors to cooperate to some extent with one another.
This answer is strongly supported. If fax machines must work with other fax machines, then it is in the interest of different fax machine manufacturers to cooperate to some extent.
C
The more competitors there are in a high-tech industry, the more they will have to cooperate in determining the basic design of their product.
This answer is unsupported. The stimulus is limited to the fax industry, and we have no information in the stimulus whether this is a high-tech industry.
D
Some cooperation among manufacturers in the same industry is more beneficial than is pure competition.
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus what the benefits are, if any, of a scenario of pure competition to make this comparison.
E
Cooperation is beneficial only in industries whose products depend on other products of the same type.
This answer is unsupported. Saying cooperation is only beneficial in these types of industries is too strong.

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