LSAT 151 – Section 4 – Question 02

LSAT 151 - Section 4 - Question 02

September 2018

You need a full course to see this video. Enroll now and get started in less than a minute.

Request new explanation

Target time: 1:05

This is question data from the 7Sage LSAT Scorer. You can score your LSATs, track your results, and analyze your performance with pretty charts and vital statistics - all with a Free Account ← sign up in less than 10 seconds

Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT151 S4 Q02
+LR
+Exp
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Net Effect +NetEff
A
1%
149
B
1%
150
C
97%
162
D
0%
147
E
0%
163
131
137
143
 +Easier 145.196 +SubsectionEasier

A company decided to scan all of its salespersons’ important work that existed only in paper form into a central computer database that could be easily accessed using portable computers, thereby saving salespersons the effort of lugging their paper files all over the country. The project was a dismal failure, however; salespersons rarely accessed the database and continued to rely on many paper files, which they had refused to turn over to the staff responsible for creating the database.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Salespeople generally didn’t cooperate with or use the new, convenient digital database.

Objective
The correct answer will be a hypothesis explaining why salespeople weren’t on board with the database, to the point of refusing to hand over some of their files. This explanation will provide some comparison between the database and the current system, which was preferred by the salespeople.

A
Some of the salespersons gave huge paper files to the staff responsible for creating the database while other salespersons gave them much smaller files.
We need to know why salespeople chose not to access the database. It doesn’t matter which files went into creating the database.
B
Most of the salespersons already had portable computers before the new database was created.
The stimulus tells us that most salespeople continued to use paper files. We need to know why. All this tells us is that salespeople had access to computers before the database was created.
C
The papers that the salespersons found most important all contained personal information about employees of client companies, which the salespersons did not want in a central database.
The most important documents for salespeople are sensitive documents that they don’t want to share with others. So, the database failed because salespeople wouldn’t have been able to access their most important documents.
D
All of the salespersons were required to attend a series of training sessions for the new database software even though many of them found the software easy to use even without training.
Why would this stop the salespeople from using the database? If anything, it just means that all the salespeople were able to use the database.
E
The number of staff required to create the database turned out to be larger than anticipated, and the company had to pay overtime wages to some of them.
We need to know what happened after the database was created. We don’t care how difficult or expensive it was to make the database.

Take PrepTest

Review Results

LSAT PrepTest 151 Explanations

Section 1 - Reading Comprehension

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

Section 4 - Logical Reasoning

Get full LSAT course

Leave a Reply