LSAT 152 – Section 1 – Question 02

LSAT 152 - Section 1 - Question 02

November 2018

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT152 S1 Q02
+LR
Main conclusion or main point +MC
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
0%
153
B
1%
156
C
0%
147
D
94%
162
E
5%
155
120
129
141
 +Easiest 148.23 +SubsectionMedium

Policy analyst: Those concerned with safeguarding public health by reducing the risk of traffic fatalities typically focus their efforts on automotive safety measures such as increasing seat belt use, reducing distracted driving, and improving automotive technology. But what would contribute the most to safeguarding public health is a reduction in total miles traveled on our roads. The fact is that traveling by car is itself a major risk factor.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that if we want to protect public health, getting people to drive fewer miles would be more impactful than automotive safety measures. This is because traveling by car creates a major risk of traffic fatalities.

Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is the author’s assessment about what measure would contribute most to reducing traffic fatalities: “[W]hat would contribute the most to safeguarding public health is a reduction in total miles traveled on our roads.”

A
Public health can be safeguarded through reducing traffic fatalities.
This might be an assumption of the argument, but it’s not the conclusion. The author’s conclusion concerns the best way to safeguard public health.
B
Those concerned with safeguarding public health should focus their efforts on reducing traffic fatalities.
The conclusion does not tell anyone that they should or should not do something. It’s simply an assessment of what would contribute most to safeguarding public health.
C
Increasing seat belt use, reducing distracted driving, and improving automotive technology all safeguard public health.
This is part of context. But the author’s conclusion is that there’s another method that would contribute more to protecting public health.
D
A reduction in total miles traveled would contribute more to safeguarding public health than would any automotive safety measure.
This is a paraphrase of the conclusion. The author asserted that reducing miles driven contributes the “most” to protecting public health. This means it contributes more than any other method.
E
Traveling by car is itself a major risk factor for traffic fatalities.
This is a premise.

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