Cant we get the contrapositive of the original statement and fit it in that way? This seems to be what is happening in B...

can someone answer this please #help?

@cnguyen2195719 said:

Yes, you are allowed to use command F.

But they automatically highlight in yellow what the question referred to. So if it referred to the 2nd sentence of the 2nd paragraph, when you click on that question that sentence would already be highlighted for you. So I didn't find command F to be needed on the test :)

Are you sure? Did LSAC specifically say you could use command F? It just seems like cheating... I dont want to do something I am not allowed to!

Thanks for replying :)

I don't understand. In the explanation of the passage, JY says that the main point is the last sentence that states the conclusion that "copyright infringement is ill-advised" but then here the main point is about linking web sites? Can someone explain to me why B is not right for question 15? I thought it summarized the last sentence of the passage well... #help

This might be a dumb question but how are we suppose to know that the Persian gulf war happened in a "desert region? Thats not something I knew... #help

I struggled with this question so I am putting my reasoning down here to summarize if anyone needs it! I typed this out super quick so it is not perfect by any means. Comment if you have anything to add or see anything wrong.

beetle fossils were used to determine temperatures in britain over the past 22,00 years, how? They found out the temperature tolerances of beetles that are still around now. Then they found fossils of the same species and figured out what date they are from (lets say from 100 years ago). From this they concluded that okay, if the dung beetle (for example) is around now and it can survive at a maximum temperature of 30 degrees, then the dung beetle 100 years ago must have also had the same temperature tolerance or else it wouldnt have fossilized it wouldnt have survived. Therefore, the maximum temperature that could have occured 100 years ago when this dung beetle was alive must also be 30 degrees. The assumption then has to be that the temperature tolerances of the beetles did not change, because if this were false, if the teperature tolerances did change, then the temperature tolerance of the dung beetle then could have been 20 degrees, but now it adapted and can tolerate a temperature of 30 degrees. Then this would tell us nothing about what the maximum temperature was then. This is why E must be true and is the necessary assumption.

A) this doesnt have to be true and doesnt really matter for the argument. Even if they cant, who cares?

B) Maybe, but the stimulus also tells us that "individuals of several species found in the same place were found to date to the same period" so its either contradicting the stimulus or just telling us different information that we dont need

C) We dont know this based on the stimulus and we arent comparing how accurate this process is compared to other processes.

D)This is just a big mishmash of words put before E to make us waste time. First of all, we arent trying to know the "highest actual temperature" we are trying to know the maximum summer temperature that "could have existed". Second, where in the stimulus does it point that any of this needs to be necessary? "equaled the average of the highest temperature..." we dont know this and thus cant conclude that it is a neccessary assumption. Even applying the MBT test none of this must be true because we dont know enough about the procedure used

E) This is the correct answer. It is telling us that the temperature tolerances of the beetles did not change, which is extremely important if we are trying to draw an accurate number of past temperature tolerances by observing the temperature tolerances of beetles now. As mentioned above, if this were not true we would not be able to conclude anything about what the maximum temperature was before.

I understood the flaw in the argument that it just affirms the necessary but I couldnt quite understand how to translate it into the answer choices. I still dont understand why D is wrong. To me it is descriptively accurate and describing the flaw and JY did not really explain why it was wrong he kind of just said that it is. Can someone explain to me why D is wrong? Thanks! #help

Can someone explain to me JY's pie analogy? I understand why the correct answer is C but I cant for the life of me comprehend the reasoning JY gave. If anything it made me confused when I thought I understood the reasoning clearly.... #help

I still dont understand this. You said you choose one translation rule and apply it, and then negate the other idea. But NCI is not negated after you applied the translation rule on IG. I understand how you got IG because when you negate a "not" it becomes positive but then would it be NOTNCI because you have to negate that one as well? #help

I chose D as my answer choice by eliminating all the others but there is still something I dont understand. When it states that the government "does not act to prevent a certain kind of situation from arising" how does that fit our premises? What situation did the government act to prevent? I dont see any connection between what the government did and preventing nuclear power plants... #help

Can someone tell me why A is incorrect? I cant say why it would be right but I am having trouble writing down a reason for why it is wrong. It just confuses me. #help

And on the other hand, I think saying that a book with intrinsic value=high quality book is a pretty big assumption to make which also threw me off

I guess I am kind of replying to myself by reasoning that if anything this would strengthen their reasoning. If book publishers arent publishing these books because profits have gone down and they cant afford to lose more money, this would strengthen the idea that they are only interested in money and not on the books themselves. But, I still dont really get why B is right.

Hi, can someone help me with something? I initially chose E because I thought that if profits were going down in the publishing industry, this could explain why they are publishing less books of intrinsic value, because they just can afford to publish any more of these books since profits have gone down. Can someone give me a better explanation as to why E is wrong and B is right? #help