LSAT 126 – Section 3 – Question 04

LSAT 126 - Section 3 - Question 04

October 2008

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT126 S3 Q04
+LR
Weaken +Weak
A
91%
163
B
1%
152
C
1%
149
D
7%
158
E
1%
153
125
136
148
 +Easier 144.364 +SubsectionEasier

J.Y.’s explanation

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Cassie: In order to improve the quality of customer service provided by our real estate agency, we should reduce client loads—the number of clients each agent is expected to serve at one time.

Melvin: Although smaller client loads are desirable, reducing client loads at our agency is simply not feasible. We already find it very difficult to recruit enough qualified agents; recruiting even more agents, which would be necessary in order to reduce client loads, is out of the question.

Summarize Argument
Melvin concludes that reducing client loads isn’t feasible. This is because the real estate agency already has trouble recruiting qualified agents, and recruiting more agents is necessary for reducing client loads.

Notable Assumptions
Melvin assumes that reducing client loads wouldn’t help the real estate agency recruit more qualified agents. He believes that the necessary condition only works one way, which means he doesn’t believe lower client loads are necessary to help recruit more qualified agents.

A
Since reducing client loads would improve working conditions for agents, reducing client loads would help recruit additional qualified agents to the real estate agency.
While a lack of qualified agents prevent the real estate agency from lowering client loads, high client loads make it very difficult to recruit qualified agents. Thus, lowering client loads would be beneficial for the real estate agency.
B
Many of the real estate agency’s current clients have expressed strong support for efforts to reduce client loads.
We don’t care what the clients think. We care about what’s feasible and beneficial to the real estate agency.
C
Several recently conducted studies of real estate agencies have shown that small client loads are strongly correlated with high customer satisfaction ratings.
Melvin would likely agree smaller client loads are a good thing. He simply thinks they aren’t feasible at the moment.
D
Hiring extra support staff for the real estate agency’s main office would have many of the same beneficial effects as reducing client loads.
This doesn’t weaken Melvin’s stance that client loads shouldn’t be reduced. If anything, it provides another method of achieving the same result reducing client loads would amount to.
E
Over the last several years, it has become increasingly challenging for the real estate agency to recruit enough qualified agents just to maintain current client loads.
This seems to support Melvin’s stance that recruiting more qualified agents is infeasible. We need to weaken that stance.

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