LSAT 109 – Section 1 – Question 12

LSAT 109 - Section 1 - Question 12

December 2000

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT109 S1 Q12
+LR
Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw
Sampling +Smpl
Math +Math
A
2%
162
B
78%
168
C
8%
160
D
1%
163
E
11%
161
140
151
163
 +Medium 148.877 +SubsectionMedium

A nationwide poll of students, parents, and teachers showed that over 90 percent believe that an appropriate percentage of their school’s budget is being spent on student counseling programs. It seems, then, that any significant increase in a school’s budget should be spent on something other than student counseling programs.

A
The argument confuses a mere coincidence with a causal relationship.
The argument doesn’t discuss a coincidence and no causal relationship is presented.
B
The argument confuses the percentage of the budget spent on a program with the overall amount spent on that program.
This is the flaw the argument commits. While over 90% of students, parents, and teachers believe an appropriate percentage of their school’s budget is going toward student counseling programs, we have no idea if they agree with the sheer number of dollars going to the programs.
C
The argument fails to justify its presumption that what is true of a part of the budget is also true of the total budget.
The argument doesn’t make this presumption. The argument doesn’t make any claims about the total budget of schools or the views of students, parents, and teachers about total budgets.
D
The argument fails to consider the possibility that money could be saved by training students as peer counselors.
The argument isn’t concerned with how money could be saved. It only addresses the views of students, parents, and teachers about their school’s spending on student counseling programs.
E
The argument fails to consider that if more money is spent on a program, then more money cannot also be used for other purposes.
It’s not clear that the argument doesn’t consider this. We don’t know whether the argument has considered that a school spending more money on one program could mean the school can’t spend more money on a different program.

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