answer choice D sounds like it is saying the number of new cars purchased by residents of blomenville is greater than all of the cars sold by regis, which is why i got this wrong. Otherwise i had the same numbers /:

I think you are missing something. The paradox is that there has been 10x more pesticides used in the past year, yet insects are killing twice as many as crops as before (i.e. why are the insects that are killing crops not going down because there are so many more pesticides being used?). A does not answer the question of why more insects killing crops still.

There is a conclusion in the stimulus for strengthening questions as indicated by the "so" in the last sentence.

MSS questions will not have a conclusion in the stimulus, the conclusion will be in the answer choices.

JY said that in the more recent exams of the LSAT you should read both passages. In the old LSAT exams it wasn't required if the question was regarding the first speaker only.