LSAT 105 – Section 1 – Question 16

LSAT 105 - Section 1 - Question 16

February 1999

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PT105 S1 Q16
+LR
Except +Exc
Weaken +Weak
A
3%
156
B
11%
161
C
5%
158
D
75%
167
E
7%
160
145
154
164
 +Harder 147.243 +SubsectionMedium

In a town containing a tourist attraction, hotel and restaurant revenues each increased more rapidly over the past year than did revenue from the sale of passes to the attraction, which are valid for a full year. This led those in charge of the attraction to hypothesize that visitors were illicitly selling or sharing the passes.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
People in charge of a tourist attraction hypothesize that visitors illegally sold or shared passes to the attraction in the past year. This is because hotel and restaurant revenues increased more than did revenue from the attraction itself.

Notable Assumptions
The people in charge of the tourist attraction assume that the only reason anyone would use the nearby hotels and restaurants is to go to the tourist attraction. In other words, these people believe that there should be a 1:1 correlation in how rapidly revenue rises for the tourist attraction, and how rapidly revenue rises for nearby restaurants and hotels.

A
During the past year other tourist attractions have opened up in the area.
If other tourist attractions opened up in the area, then they’re probably attracting visitors who don’t also visit the tourist attraction in question. This weakens the 1:1 correlation the people talking in the stimulus seem to think must exist.
B
Those possessing passes made more frequent trips to the attraction last year than in previous years.
Revenue for passes didn’t increase at the same rate as hotels and restaurants since people holding passes visited more frequently. They spent money on hotels and restaurants each trip, but not on a tourist attraction pass.
C
While the cost of passes is unchanged since last year, hotel and meal prices have risen.
Hotels and restaurants charge more than they did the year before, while the tourist attraction costs the same. Thus, all things being equal, revenue for the former increased more rapidly than the latter.
D
The local board of tourism reports that the average length of stay for tourists remained unchanged over the past year.
This doesn’t explain why hotel and restaurant revenue would’ve risen more rapidly than tourist attraction revenue. It simply states that one possibly important factor has in fact stayed the same.
E
Each pass contains a photograph of the holder, and during the past year these photographs have usually been checked.
This suggests that selling or sharing the passes wouldn’t work. There must be some other reason why tourist attraction revenue hasn’t risen as rapidly as hotel and restaurant revenue.

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