LSAT 106 – Section 2 – Question 26

LSAT 106 - Section 2 - Question 26

June 1999

You need a full course to see this video. Enroll now and get started in less than a minute.

Request new explanation

Target time: 1:20

This is question data from the 7Sage LSAT Scorer. You can score your LSATs, track your results, and analyze your performance with pretty charts and vital statistics - all with a Free Account ← sign up in less than 10 seconds

Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT106 S2 Q26
+LR
+Exp
Except +Exc
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
19%
163
B
60%
168
C
14%
162
D
5%
157
E
2%
155
151
161
171
 +Hardest 147.566 +SubsectionMedium

Smoking in bed has long been the main cause of home fires. Despite a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the last two decades, however, there has been no comparable decline in the number of people killed in home fires.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why hasn’t there been a decline in the number of people killed in home fires that corresponds to the significant decline in cigarette smoking over the past two decades, even though smoking in bed has been the main cause of home fires?

Objective
This is an EXCEPT question. The four wrong answers should give us a reason to think a decline in cigarette smoking would not necessarily lead to a decline in the number of people killed in home fires.

A
Compared to other types of home fires, home fires caused by smoking in bed usually cause relatively little damage before they are extinguished.
This minimizes the significance of home fires caused by smoking, which suggests that home fires caused by smoking were not a significant source of home fire deaths. This could be why a decline in smoking would not necessarily lead to significantly fewer home fire deaths.
B
Home fires caused by smoking in bed often break out after the home’s occupants have fallen asleep.
If these fires often break out after people in the house fall asleep, that increases the danger posed by these home fires. This makes the discrepancy harder to explain, because we’d expect a reduction in home fires caused by smoking to lead to a comparable decline in deaths.
C
Smokers who smoke in bed tend to be heavy smokers who are less likely to quit smoking than are smokers who do not smoke in bed.
This suggests that the general decline in smoking is not occurring among the kind of person who smokes in bed. This could be why there hasn’t been a corresponding decline in deaths from home fires.
D
An increasing number of people have been killed in home fires that started in the kitchen.
More deaths from home fires that began outside of bed increased, which could explain why overall deaths from home fires didn’t go down as much as we’d expect from a reduction in home fires caused by smoking in bed.
E
Population densities have increased, with the result that one home fire can cause more deaths than in previous decades.
This explains how, even if home fires from smoking went down, because deaths per home fire have gone up, overall deaths from home fires might not have declined as much as expected.

Take PrepTest

Review Results

LSAT PrepTest 106 Explanations

Section 1 - Logical Reasoning

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

Section 4 - Reading Comprehension

Get full LSAT course

Leave a Reply