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Old LSAT QuestionsHi! Is anyone else looking at 10 Actual, Official LSAT Preptests, even though they are less relevant? Let's talk about them here!
... secure the the *sufficient* clause of the conclusion:
... . But we can take the contrapositive of it, which is in the ... ; P.
Some of the difficulties of this one are: 1 ... smack-dab in the middle of the expanded conclusion and realizing ... -
PT48.S1.Q20 - Researcher: We have found that some casesHello! This NA question is causing my blood pressure to rise. I have trouble accepting E). Negating E) doesn't destroy the argument. It's okay if…
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If you take the contrapositive of this statement, you get:
of HBP are not treatable. Since the conclusion doesnt match the contrapositive ... I actually misunderstood the meaning of "ONLY".
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PT83.S1.Q18 - If the standards committee has a quorumI'm having a hard time understanding this question at all. I've found very little help online for this question. Can anyone please explain. "If t…
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PT83.S1.Q18 - If the standards committee has a quorumI'm having a hard time understanding this question at all. I've found very little help online for this question. Can anyone please explain. "If t…
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By the laws of time (and based on every ... 't mess with the laws of time) [If the party is ... not at 7.]
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PT44.S4.Q22 - Research shows that when dogsThe question is linked below: https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-44-section-4-question-22/ I'm looking for advice because upon first read…
... not A. That's the contrapositive of (S).
... and the inverse of (S) are contrapositives of each other, meaning ... ("being a sufficient condition of") are very different things, ... accommodated by the soft language of "protect." The conclusion ... -
PT68.S3.Q24 - In the Riverview Building, every apartmentSo this question is easy enough when I take a moment to write out the logic. Even so, I'd like some advice on how to attempt this without enough time…
... jotted down the flawed logic of the argument. Then I ... first step and got rid of B, but the next ... step of matching the conclusions is ... the answer could be a contrapositive of what I was looking ... that's frankly the kind of problem I should tackle if ... -
"no A are B" equals "all A are ~B"?Help! I thought "no A are B" equals "~B are A"
I'm not sure I understand how you're using the "~", given that you use "no" as the negative in the first statement. But, the contrapositive of "no A are B" (A -->/B) is "no B are A" (B-->/A)
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PT4.S1.Q8 - Political theorist: The chief foundations of allHey guys, I'm having trouble understanding question 8 from PT4 section 1. I diagrammed it: -PWP ---> -GLS and realized that the passage makes an…
... wrongful negation. You are kind of right, however, as those two ... ; ~GLS, PWP ---> GLS. The contrapositive of the stimulus is GLS ---> ... -
Otherwise & Not Otherwise BiconditionalsHey there! Hope everyone is doing well in their LSAT studies! I stumbled upon a question that stated "otherwise" within the answer choices. (for r…
... you combine that with the Contrapositive of the Original you get Not ... )]
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PT30.S2.Q21 - The new agriculture bill will almost surely failWhy is A the right answer? Isn't A just the contrapositive of E? https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-30-section-2-question-21/ **Admin note:…
... ! So A is not the contrapositive of E. You cannot contrapose "most ... -
PT70.S1.Q23 - Columnist: Although most people favor the billwould some one please help me understand how to properly translate answer choice E into formal logic? i have some idea from the discussion in the vid…
There's a lesson on embedded conditionals that might be good ... isn't the same kind of embedded conditional, but I think a ... of each other. There are also two ways to think about embedded ... the tricky part beyond the embedded conditional type situation going on ... -
PT6.S2.Q23 - Book Review: When I read a novel set in a cityI was down to A and E, and am having a difficult time understanding why A is incorrect and E is the right answer. Can someone please enlighten me?
... had an improper understanding of the LAWGIC in the ... know well…”. This portion of the sentence sets the ... criteria of the type of books the book ... know nothing else of OTHER types of novels the author ... novelist” this is a contrapositive of this AC. We don ... -
PT87.S4.G4 - A charity is assigning volunteers to workThis game has virtually no rules to solve MPT questions. During PT, I spent 15 minutes for the first 3 games, but I couldn’t finish game 4 in 20 …
... is already occupying 1 of the 2 out slots, ... You also have a total of 9 in slots, with ... 5 players, each of which can be in a ... maximum of 2 times (b/c ... me out on a couple of questions (20/23).
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PT2.S2.Q11 - If the forest continuesCan someone explain why the correct answer to this question is B? I'm completely stumped on this, as D seems like the right answer to me. <strong>…
I kind of took a different approach with ... with the politician by the contrapositive. So politician said:
Save ... messy but I saw this contrapositive as more so consistent with ... making the forests disappear. The contrapositive of B would say: Save Koala ... -
PT11.S4.Q8 - cigarette smoking and excessive consumption of candyCould someone please explain this for me. I understand that A's wrong because it doesn't paraphrase the MP completely B and D's are wrong for…
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The proper contrapositive of the argument is: TCHR -> ... ; CCHR
But none of that is even the main ... point of the argument. "CCHR" is the ... -
Contrapositives needed?I’m getting into the weeds of the curriculum. Earlier on in conditional and sufficient reasoning, I see the use of diagramming. However, this creates…
... you cannot reliably *understand* the contrapositive of a conditional relationship. But if ... thereafter. But a deep understanding of conditional logic, born from many ... hours of practice, is well worth the ... -
Why are Pts from the 80's so hard and different compared to earlier Pts?What is the difference between LR questions in the 70's and 80's compared to earlier PTs? For example, is it that recent LR questions hinge on rea…
... an extensive use of poor grammar not to mention embedded clauses those ... no commas to indicate the embedded clause I'm inclined to ... make for a different sort of test.
That's ... 's an example of a very common case of embedded clauses having no ... -
Chaining Conditional Statements Help#help! Greetings all! I've gotten really good at identifying and parsing conditional statements... I can quickly identify the indicator group and…
... you can always trigger the contrapositive, unless it results in a ... gt; B --> C. The contrapositive would just be /C --> ... you could not trigger the contrapositive because you would end ... to trigger and apply the contrapositive of a conditional statement. Do ... -
PT9 S4 Q04Lately I have been having a lot of trouble with "must be true" questions. Can anyone explain why C was the correct answer choice for this question, a…
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C is the Contrapositive of the original statement and is ... is is a Mistaken Negation of the original statement because it ... -
PT9 S4 Q04Lately I have been having a lot of trouble with "must be true" questions. Can anyone explain why C was the correct answer choice for this question, a…
... question stem to a set of conditionals, it will look like ... and I.
The contrapositive of this is (using DeMorgan's ... .
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#help PrepTest 15 Section 2 Question 8I'm having difficulty understanding why the correct answer choice for this problem is A. I'm struggling to derive from the stimulus that the governme…
... /> Abandon efforts → level of toxic substances is zero
of “level of toxic substances is ... deny this, you get the contrapositive of our lawgic statement:
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Help on question pls!!!Same with this one question like before... A park contains at most five of seven kinds of trees- firs, laurels, maples, oaks ,pines, spruces, and …
... apart.
The correct contrapositive of F -> P would be ... -> F.
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How to know when conditional or subsetHello everyone, I am currently doing some LR problems and I've had a recurring problem. When writing out conditional statements, I am sometimes co…
... whether a subject is part of the conditional statement or ... statement! You can think of them as the same thing ... gt; CA (This is the contrapositive of the above)
ABS -------------> ... really just a different way of representing it, and conditional ... -
HELP I can't understand this question no matter where I look.If someone could help me with this question and show why every AC is wrong and why the right one is right it would be very helpful. PT 2 S2 Questio…
... Disappearance --> /Koala Extinction**. The contrapositive of this is Koala Extinction --> ... this question is in terms of Must Be True, Could be ... -
HELP I can't understand this question no matter where I look.If someone could help me with this question and show why every AC is wrong and why the right one is right it would be very helpful. PT 2 S2 Questio…
... /> Look at the logic of the biologist: if forests disappear ... KAE
and the contrapositive of if not KAE-> ... FDPR. This leaves lots of room open for other ... the statement of the biologist because of those many ...
so, by contrapositive, if KE->not ... -
Really basic questionsI have gone through the course and watched all the LG videos and done most of the problem sets but I'm still unclear on a few things. I know this st…
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To find the contrapositive of a statement, the "formula" for ... by itself."
The contrapositive you wrote is incorrect, but ... the reasoning behind why a contrapositive works. To do this ... a minor error in the contrapositive, to me the biggest ... -
Really basic questionsI have gone through the course and watched all the LG videos and done most of the problem sets but I'm still unclear on a few things. I know this st…
... /out) example. To find the contrapositive, flip and negate. Here's ... side). But to get the contrapositive, you also have to negate ... condition, but the mere presence of the necessary condition doesn't ... your In/Out example, the contrapositive of X in -> Y in ... -
Quick Translation HelpIt might be the lack of coffee, or alternatively the 8 hrs of study so far, but for some reason I am having trouble translating this sentence. (The…
... ; B and C
the contrapositive of that is /B or /C ... ; B or C
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Basic Translation Group 3 Indicators - Clarification NeededI was hoping to see if someone has be able to make a concise explanation/understanding of this indicators and their respective rules. I find the them…
... geared towards the same goal of representing english in logic. ... , they're just contrapositives of each other- which is ... result.
Contrapositive of statement 1: If its not ... S ---> /BG)
Contrapositive of statement 2: If toms buys ... -
PT21.S2.Q20 - Ann will either take a leave of absence or quit her jobFor Logic games, either or is diagrammed as /A--->B, but what about for logical reasoning? Leave of absence----> /quit or /Leave of absence----> q…
... that one element of each side of the conclusion exists ... :
~leave of absence —> ~allowed to take ... br /> quit job —> ~leave of absence —> ~allowed to take ...
Voila. D is the contrapositive of this solution.
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