LSAT 153 – Section 3 – Question 09

LSAT 153 - Section 3 - Question 09

June 2019

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT153 S3 Q09
+LR
Main conclusion or main point +MC
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
9%
159
B
4%
155
C
75%
163
D
8%
154
E
5%
155
141
151
160
 +Medium 146.755 +SubsectionMedium

Political organizer: Our group needs to assemble at least 30 volunteers if Marcia Garson is to have a chance of winning the election, since she will win only if the public is fully informed about her record. To fully inform the public, at least 30 of our people must campaign for her, but we simply cannot afford to pay people for this work.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that the group needs at least 30 volunteers in order for Garson to have a chance of winning the election. This is because in order for her to win, the public must be fully informed of her record, and in order for the public to be fully informed of her record, she needs 30 people to campaign for her. The campaign can’t pay 30 people to campaign, so they need to be volunteers.

Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is the author’s assessment of what’s required in order for Garson to have a chance of winning the election: “Our group needs to assemble at least 30 volunteers if Marcia Garson is to have a chance of winning the election.”

A
Marcia Garson will probably not be elected.
The author never states or implies this, so it can’t be the conclusion.
B
The political organizer’s group cannot afford to pay people to campaign for Marcia Garson.
This is a premise. This is why the group needs to assemble volunteers (as opposed to paid campaigners) in order for Garson to have a chance of winning.
C
If winning the election is to be a possibility for Marcia Garson, the political organizer’s group needs to bring together at least 30 volunteers.
This is a paraphrase of the conclusion.
D
If the public is not fully informed about Marcia Garson’s record, she will not win the election.
This is the contrapositive of one of the premises. The author uses the fact that people need to be fully informed about Garson’s record in order for her to win to support the conclusion that the group needs to assemble at least 30 volunteers for Garson to win.
E
At least 30 people from the political organizer’s group need to campaign for Marcia Garson in order to fully inform the public about her record.
This is one of the premises. The author uses this to support the conclusion that we need at least 30 volunteers in order for Garson to have a chance of winning.

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