LSAT 146 – Section 3 – Question 23

LSAT 146 - Section 3 - Question 23

June 2016

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT146 S3 Q23
+LR
Evaluate +Eval
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Link Assumption +LinkA
A
2%
161
B
35%
162
C
48%
166
D
14%
163
E
1%
154
153
165
178
 +Hardest 146.758 +SubsectionMedium

Businessperson: Because the parking area directly in front of the building was closed for maintenance today, I was late to my meeting. If the maintenance had been done on a different day, I would have gotten to the meeting on time. After finding out that I could not park in that area it took me 15 minutes to find an available parking space, making me a few minutes late.

Summarize Argument
The businessperson concludes that she would’ve been on time for her meeting if parking area maintenance had been done on a different day. This is because it took her 15 minutes to find parking since the parking area was closed for maintenance, hence why she arrived late.

Notable Assumptions
The businessperson assumes that she would’ve been on time if the parking area hadn’t had maintenance going on. This means she assumes that she would’ve been able to find parking in the parking area if it had been open.

A
What were the reasons for performing maintenance on the parking area directly in front of the building on that particular day?
We don’t care why maintenance was being performed. We care if the maintenance actually made the businessperson late for her meeting.
B
Were any other of the meeting attendees also late to the meeting because they had difficulty finding parking?
We don’t know if other meeting attendees drove to the meeting. Even if none of the others were late because of parking, it could just be that those people took the bus or walked to work.
C
What are the parking patterns in the building’s vicinity on days when the parking area in front of the building is open?
If the parking area is generally crowded, perhaps to the point of being full, then maintenance wasn’t the problem as the businessperson claims—she wouldn’t have found parking, anyway. If the parking area is generally empty, she would’ve found parking.
D
Does the businessperson have a tendency to be late to meetings?
We don’t care if she’s often late to meetings. It could still be she would’ve been on time if not for the maintenance.
E
Was it particularly important that the businessperson not be late to this meeting?
Irrelevant. How important this meeting was has no bearing on why the businessperson was late.

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