LSAT 127 – Section 2 – Question 19

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PT127 S2 Q19
+LR
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Quantifier +Quant
A
81%
166
B
6%
156
C
4%
159
D
3%
153
E
6%
158
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+Medium 146.61 +SubsectionMedium

None of the students taking literature are taking physics, but several of the students taking physics are taking art. In addition, none of the students taking rhetoric are taking physics.

Summary
The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences
Some art students aren’t taking literature.

Some art students aren’t taking rhetoric.

Some students take neither rhetoric nor literature.

A
There are students who are taking art but not literature.
This must be true. As shown below, there must be some overlap between students taking art and students not taking literature.
B
None of the students taking literature are taking art.
This could be false. We know that some art students aren’t taking literature, but we can’t say that none of the literature students are taking art.
C
There are students who are taking rhetoric but not literature.
This could be false. We know that there are some students who take neither rhetoric nor literature; it could be the case that some students take one but not the other.
D
None of the students taking rhetoric are taking literature.
This could be false. We know that there are some students who take neither rhetoric nor literature; we just can’t say that no students who take rhetoric take literature.
E
There are students who are taking both art and literature.
This could be false. We know that some art students aren’t taking literature, but it could be the case that some students do take art and literature.

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