LSAT 120 – Section 3 – Question 02

LSAT 120 - Section 3 - Question 02

October 2005

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PT120 S3 Q02
+LR
Strengthen +Streng
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Link Assumption +LinkA
A
93%
163
B
1%
154
C
2%
155
D
2%
155
E
2%
156
128
138
147
 +Easier 146.629 +SubsectionMedium

Being near woodlands, the natural habitat of bees, promotes the health of crops that depend on pollination. Bees, the most common pollinators, visit flowers far from woodlands less often than they visit flowers close to woodlands.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that being near woodlands promotes crop health for crops that depend on pollination. This is because bees visit flowers close to woodlands far more often than flowers far from wetlands.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the frequency with which a bee visits a flower has an effect on its pollination. If bees only need to visit a flower once to pollinate it, then additional visits would make little difference.

A
The likelihood that a plant is pollinated increases as the number of visits from pollinators increases.
The more often a bee visits a plant, the more likely the plant is to be pollinated. Being close to woodlands is thus beneficial to crops that depend on pollination, since bees visit crops near woodlands more often than those far from woodlands.
B
Many bees live in habitats other than woodlands.
We don’t care where bees live. We already know they visit flowers near woodlands more often than those far from woodlands.
C
Woodlands are not the natural habitat of all pollinators.
Like (B), this is totally irrelevant. We already know bees visit flowers near woodlands more often than those far from woodlands. We don’t care about other pollinators.
D
Some pollinators visit flowers far from their habitats more often than they visit flowers close to their habitats.
We already know bees visit flowers near woodlands more often than those far from woodlands. We don’t care about other pollinators.
E
Many crops that are not near woodlands depend on pollination.
According to the author, those crops would be more successful if they were near woodlands. This doesn’t strengthen the argument.

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