LSAT 104 – Section 1 – Question 10

LSAT 104 - Section 1 - Question 10

December 1998

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT104 S1 Q10
+LR
Weaken +Weak
Math +Math
A
5%
161
B
4%
160
C
7%
160
D
1%
166
E
84%
169
143
152
161
 +Medium 149.106 +SubsectionMedium

Sales manager: Last year the total number of meals sold in our company’s restaurants was much higher than it was the year before. Obviously consumers find our meals desirable.

Accountant: If you look at individual restaurants, however, you find that the number of meals sold actually decreased substantially at every one of our restaurants that was in operation both last year and the year before. The desirability of our meals to consumers has clearly decreased, given that this group of restaurants—the only ones for which we have sales figures that permit a comparison between last year and the year before—demonstrates a trend toward fewer sales.

Summarize Argument
The account concludes that the desirability of the company’s meals has decreased. Her evidence is that a certain group of restaurants—those that permit a year-by-year comparison—shows that fewer overall meals are selling.

Notable Assumptions
The accountant assumes that a decrease in sales means that the company’s meals must be less desirable than before. This means that she believes desirability is the only factor that contributes to sales. The accountant also assumes that what’s true of the restaurants in question—those that permit a year-by-year comparison—is generally true of the company’s restaurants.

A
The company’s restaurants last year dropped from their menus most of the new dishes that had been introduced the year before.
We don’t know whether these new dishes were desirable or not. Even if we did know, it wouldn’t weaken the accountant’s argument.
B
Prior to last year there was an overall downward trend in the company’s sales.
We need to know about what happened last year. The years before don’t matter to the accountant’s argument.
C
Those of the company’s restaurants that did increase their sales last year did not offer large discounts on prices to attract customers.
Even if price discounts were attracting customers, there could be some other factor aside from desirability causing the increase in sales. We need to attack the connecting between desirability and declining sales.
D
Sales of the company’s most expensive meal contributed little to the overall two-year sales increase.
We’re not interested in specific meals. We need to know if the restaurants in question are representative of the company’s restaurants in general, and if we can draw a conclusion about desirability from those restaurants.
E
Most of the company’s restaurants that were in operation throughout both last year and the year before are located in areas where residents experienced a severe overall decline in income last year.
The restaurants in question aren’t necessarily a representative example of the company’s restaurants at large. These restaurants are in areas that experienced an economic downtown, which suggests the issue was personal finance rather than desirability.

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