LSAT 114 – Section 1 – Question 17

LSAT 114 - Section 1 - Question 17

October 2002

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT114 S1 Q17
+LR
Weaken +Weak
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Math +Math
A
5%
154
B
88%
163
C
3%
155
D
1%
152
E
3%
155
128
139
150
 +Easier 144.005 +SubsectionEasier

In order to determine automobile insurance premiums for a driver, insurance companies calculate various risk factors; as the risk factors increase, so does the premium. Certain factors, such as the driver’s age and past accident history, play an important role in these calculations. Yet these premiums should also increase with the frequency with which a person drives. After all, a person’s chance of being involved in a mishap increases in proportion to the number of times that person drives.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that car insurance premiums should increase as one drives more frequently. As support, she says that the chance of being involved in an accident increases in proportion to the number of times they drive.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that people who drive more frequently drive with a comparable amount of skill or safety to those who drive less frequently.

A
People who drive infrequently are more likely to be involved in accidents that occur on small roads than in highway accidents.
The location of accidents (whether they occur on small roads or on highways) is not relevant to the argument. The argument does not distinguish between different types of accidents; the argument is about accidents generally.
B
People who drive infrequently are less likely to follow rules for safe driving than are people who drive frequently.
(B) tells us that those who drive infrequently drive less safely than those who drive frequently. This means that the claim that those who drive more frequently should have higher premiums has less support.
C
People who drive infrequently are less likely to violate local speed limits than are people who drive frequently.
This gives us a reason to believe that people who drive infrequently may be safer drivers than those who drive frequently. This does not weaken the argument (and may marginally strengthen it).
D
People who drive frequently are more likely to make long-distance trips in the course of a year than are people who drive infrequently.
We have no information that compares the safety of longer trips with that of shorter trips, so this is outside the scope of the argument.
E
People who drive frequently are more likely to become distracted while driving than are people who drive infrequently.
Distracted driving poses a risk, so (E) gives a reason why frequent drivers may drive less safely than infrequent drivers, so this marginally strengthens the argument.

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