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PT113.S2.Q20

kelliphamnguyen378

Tuesday, Jan 12 2021

Hi! A few months late but I also ran into this problem. I've definitely heard of the spleen before but I honestly didn't know that it was an organ and not a muscle.

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PT131.S2.Q3

kelliphamnguyen378

Saturday, Dec 05 2020

I also initially chose D, but upon blind reviewing I switched my answer to A. The way I understand it, answer A gives you information on how the internal audit procedure works. Yes, you do have to assume that it isn't faulty or bad. But for answer D, it gives very little information about the audit procedure so you have to make more assumptions than you would for answer A for it to strengthen the claim. For D to be correct, you have to not only assume that the auditors' work isn't faulty or bad, but that there are enough auditors in the first place to even get the job done. Also, we don't necessarily know what the human auditors are looking over. We have to assume in D that the human auditors are actually reviewing the large transactions whereas in answer A, it says explicitly that they double check the large ones. Hope this helps!

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Wednesday, Nov 04 2020

kelliphamnguyen378

Contradicting explanations for Weaken Questions?

I'm having a hard time understanding how the explanations for the right/wrong answers on these weakening questions don't contradict one another.

PT 86 S1 Q14

Conclusion: there's little justification for health warnings that urge the removal of any bat residing in buildings where people work/live

Premises: most cases of rabies in humans come from rabid animal bites and bats carry rabies, but bats are shy/rarely bite and most don't have rabies

Correct Ans: (B) rabid bats are less mobile than other bats but much more aggressive

Incorrect Ans: (C) most animals that carry rabies rarely bite people under normal conditions

Admin Note: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-86-section-1-question-14/

PT29 S1 Q16

Conclusion: Proto-Indo-European speakers probably didn't live by the ocean/sea

Premise: their language has no word for "sea"

Correct Ans: (B) some languages lack words for prominent elements of the environment of their speakers

Admin Note: https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-29-section-1-question-16/

In Q14, JY says (C) is incorrect because we don't know whether bats are included in the "most." Whether or not they are included establishes the relevance of this "most" claim -- you have to be included in the "most" otherwise we don't care. With this in mind, I initially eliminated answer (B) while doing Q16. But JY says (B) is the correct answer for Q16 because since some languages lack words for parts of their environment, it isn't surprising that Proto-Indo-European have no word for "sea." They could have still lived by the sea, making the premise less relevant. I'm confused for two reasons. First, we don't know if the Proto-Indo-European speakers are included in the "some," if they aren't included in this group then this claim becomes irrelevant. Second, the reason (B) is correct on Q16 seems in-line with the thought process I used when incorrectly picking (C) for Q14: if most animals normally rarely bite, then it isn't surprising that bats rarely bite. Rabid bats could still bite, making this premise less relevant. I can see why (B) is the best answer for Q16, but now I'm confused about why (C) is wrong for Q14. What am I missing?

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