LSAT 152 – Section 2 – Question 10

LSAT 152 - Section 2 - Question 10

November 2018

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT152 S2 Q10
+LR
+Exp
Main conclusion or main point +MC
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
1%
144
B
8%
157
C
1%
150
D
23%
159
E
68%
164
136
151
165
 +Medium 147.463 +SubsectionMedium

Godinez: In the past, land was sometimes measured by the amount of time required to plow it. Thus, two plots of equal physical dimensions were considered unequal if one was more difficult to plow than the other. However, knowing how long an area takes to plow reveals little about how many apartment complexes it can hold. Therefore, it became necessary to adopt new measures of land, such as acreage, when land uses diversified.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that we needed to come up with new ways to measure the value of land when the uses to which the land was put became more diverse. As an example, if land is used for farming, then the time it takes to plow the land is relevant to the land’s value. But if the land is used for apartments, plow time isn’t useful.

Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is the author’s assessment of the need for a change in measurement of land value: “[I]t became necessary to adopt new measures of land ... when land uses diversified.”

A
It is now easier to measure a piece of land in terms of acres than in terms of plowing time.
The conclusion doesn’t assert anything about the ease or difficulty of measuring land value. It merely states that there was a need for new measures of land value.
B
For modern purposes, newer methods provide a more accurate measure of land than plowing time does.
This may be strongly supported by the argument, but it’s not the conclusion. The conclusion concerns how new measures are necessary. It’s not about the accuracy of particular measurements of land value.
C
Some plots of land that would have been considered unequal by plowing-time measurements are of equal physical dimensions.
This relates only to the context in the first two sentences. The author’s conclusion concerns the necessity of adopting new measures of value.
D
Modern measures of land were adopted when people realized that plowing time was an inadequate measure for some land uses.
This doesn’t capture the author’s claim in the conclusion that new measures were “necessary.” The author wasn’t just saying that modern measures were adopted after plowing-time became inadequate. He was also asserting that we were required to adopt new methods.
E
The advent of diversified land uses made new measures of land necessary.
This paraphrases the conclusion. The “advent of diversified land uses” matches with “when land uses diversified,” and “made new measures of land necessary” matches with “it became necessary to adopt new measures of land.”

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