LSAT 155 – Section 4 – Question 01

LSAT 155 - Section 4 - Question 01

November 2019

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT155 S4 Q01
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
1%
145
B
1%
143
C
2%
144
D
0%
157
E
96%
160
131
136
142
 +Easier 147.589 +SubsectionMedium

A company produced a small car that costs much less—but is also much less safe—than any car previously available. However, most customers of the new car increased their safety on the roads by buying it.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
A new car was much less safe than any other car previously available, yet most customers increased their safety after buying it.

Objective
The right answer will be a hypothesis that explains how a relatively unsafe car can increase driver safety. The explanation must show how two opposite qualities can coexist, likely through the intermediary—the driver. It may state that drivers are more likely to be careful on the roads knowing their vehicle is unsafe, or that all the customers owned even less-safe vehicles before.

A
The company surveyed potential customers and discovered that most of them were more concerned about cost than about safety.
We don’t care what people cared about when buying the car. We need to know why they were safer on the roads after buying it.
B
The company could significantly increase the car’s safety without dramatically increasing its production cost.
We’re not interested in what the company could do. We’re interested in the drivers.
C
Most people who bought the new car were probably unaware that it is much less safe than other cars.
If customers were unaware that the car was relatively unsafe, then we have no reason to believe they would’ve driven more carefully than before. This doesn’t resolve anything.
D
Many households that previously could afford only one car can now afford two.
Why would having two cars in their household make a driver safer? This doesn’t resolve the paradox—that driving a relatively unsafe car made these drivers safer.
E
Most people who bought the new car previously travelled by bicycle or motorcycle, which are less safe than the new car.
Even though the car in question is unsafe compared to other cars, it’s a big step up safety-wise from bicycles and motorcycles. Hence, customers who previously rode bicycles or motorcycles became safer on the roads once they bought the new car.

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