LSAT 132 – Section 4 – Question 11

LSAT 132 - Section 4 - Question 11

December 2010

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PT132 S4 Q11
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
1%
148
B
86%
164
C
1%
157
D
3%
156
E
9%
158
128
141
153
 +Easier 146.238 +SubsectionMedium

A bacterial species will inevitably develop greater resistance within a few years to any antibiotics used against it, unless those antibiotics eliminate that species completely. However, no single antibiotic now on the market is powerful enough to eliminate bacterial species X completely.

Summary
A bacterial species will develop greater resistance within a few years to any antibiotics used against it. The only exception to this inevitable development of greater resistance is when the antibiotics eliminates the bacterial species completely. But, no single antibiotic now on the market can eliminate bacterial species X completely.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
If any single antibiotic currently on the market is used against bacterial species X, the species will develop greater resistance against that antibiotic.

A
It is unlikely that any antibiotic can be developed that will completely eliminate bacterial species X.
Unsupported. The stimulus tells us about antibiotics currently on the market. We don’t know about future antibiotics and their ability to kill bacterial species X completely.
B
If any antibiotic now on the market is used against bacterial species X, that species will develop greater resistance to it within a few years.
Strongly supported. We know no antibiotic currently on the market can kill X completely. So, if used against X, X will develop a resistance against that currently-on-the-market antibiotic.
C
The only way of completely eliminating bacterial species X is by a combination of two or more antibiotics now on the market.
Unsupported. We don’t know that this is the only way. Maybe another way is to develop a new antibiotic that can kill X completely. The stimulus doesn’t suggest this can’t be done.
D
Bacterial species X will inevitably become more virulent in the course of time.
Unsupported. The stimulus allows us to conclude that X will develop greater resistance to any currently-on-the-market antibiotic used against it. This doesn’t imply anything about the level of danger or harm (virulence) posed by X and whether it will change.
E
Bacterial species X is more resistant to at least some antibiotics that have been used against it than it was before those antibiotics were used against it.
Unsupported. We don’t know whether any antibiotics have ever been tried against X.

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