LSAT 127 – Section 3 – Question 10

LSAT 127 - Section 3 - Question 10

December 2003

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
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PT127 S3 Q10
+LR
Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw
Link Assumption +LinkA
A
0%
157
B
46%
161
C
46%
167
D
7%
160
E
1%
160
155
166
176
 +Hardest 146.462 +SubsectionMedium

Concert promoter: Some critics claim that our concert series lacks popular appeal. But our income from the sales of t-shirts and other memorabilia at the concerts is equal to or greater than that for similar sales at comparable series. So those critics are mistaken.

Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
The author concludes that our concert series has popular appeal. This is based on the fact that our income from sales of t-shirts and other memorabilia at concerts is at least as great as that from similar sales at comparable concert series.

Identify and Describe Flaw
The author assumes that sales from t-shirts and other memorabilia is an indicator of the popularity of a concert series. The author also assumes that the comparable series mentioned in the premise have popular appeal. This overlooks the possibility that those comparable series are not popular and that the sales levels do not indicate the presence of popular appeal.

A
attacks the critics on the basis of emotional considerations rather than factual ones
The author does not cite to emotional considerations in the premise supporting the conclusion.
B
takes for granted that income from sales of memorabilia is the sole indicator of popular appeal
The author doesn’t assume that income from memorabilia sales is the “sole” indicator of popular appeal. She assumes that it is one indicator, but that doesn’t mean she thinks it’s the only one. Maybe other indicators include social media virality; this doesn’t hurt the argument.
C
takes for granted that the comparable series possess popular appeal
If this assumption were not true, then the author cannot prove that our series has popular appeal based on its similar sales to a series that isn’t popular. So, the author must take for granted that the comparable series does have popularity.
D
draws a conclusion about the popularity of a series based on a comparison with other, dissimilar events
The author cites to “comparable series.” There’s no indication that these series are dissimilar to our concert series.
E
fails to adequately distinguish the series as a whole from individual concerts in it
The argument cites to sales at “the concerts,” which refers to the concert series. Both the premise and the conclusion concern the series as a whole, not individual concerts. So the argument doesn’t need to distinguish between the series and individual concerts.

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