LSAT 108 – Section 3 – Question 03
LSAT 108 - Section 3 - Question 03
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT108 S3 Q03 |
+LR
| Except +Exc Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE | A
1%
160
B
1%
156
C
2%
153
D
2%
157
E
93%
167
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130 140 149 |
+Easier | 147.273 +SubsectionMedium |
"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why did amateurs win most of the prizes when the contest was open to professional photographers?
Objective
The correct answer will be an unsatisfactory hypothesis, because it will fail to explain why amateurs won most of the prizes. Every wrong answer, meanwhile, will identify a difference between amateur and professional entrants that implies amateur photographers had an advantage.
A
Many more of the entries in the contest were from amateurs than were from professionals.
This would explain why amateurs won a majority of the prizes. If more photographs were entered by amateurs, amateurs as a collective had more chances to win prizes than professionals did.
B
The judges in the contest were amateurs, and amateurs tend to prefer photographs taken by other amateurs.
This would explain the amateurs’ success. If the judges had a preference for amateur photographs, they would be more likely to award prizes to amateur entrants than to professional entrants.
C
Amateurs tend to enter their best photographs while professionals tend to save their best work for their clients.
This would explain why amateurs won more prizes than professionals. If amateurs submitted their best work and professionals did not, the quality of amateur photographs entered may have exceeded the quality of the professional photographs entered.
D
Each category in the contest was restricted to amateurs only or professionals only, and there were more categories open to amateurs.
This would explain why amateurs won a majority of the prizes. If most of the prizes were open only to amateurs, then amateurs were bound to win a majority of them.
E
Three times as many amateurs entered the contest as had entered in any previous year.
This provides no information about the number of amateur entrants relative to the number of professional entrants. It is still possible more professionals entered the contest than amateurs, in which case the outcome remains unexplained.
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Section 1 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
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Section 3 - Logical Reasoning
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