LSAT 13 – Section 2 – Question 06
LSAT 13 - Section 2 - Question 06
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| Question QuickView |
Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT13 S2 Q06 |
+LR
| Most strongly supported +MSS | A
4%
162
B
2%
153
C
2%
163
D
1%
148
E
91%
168
|
132 142 152 |
+Medium | 148.524 +SubsectionMedium |
This is a most strongly supported question, as it asks: The statements above provide the most support for which one of the following?
The stimulus begins by informing us that there is a correlation between the distance animals travel and the size of their groups, and their diets. This just means what an animal eats is consistently related to how far it travels and what kind of group it lives with. So maybe herd animals that travel long distances usually live off mostly grass or something; we don’t get any details, just that the relationship exists. Next we learn that diet itself correlates with the animals’ faces and teeth. And that’s it! With a short MSS stimulus like this, we should be thinking about what kind of inferences we can make with so little information. In this case, if there is a connection between traveling/group behavior and diet, and between diet and face/teeth, then maybe you can somewhat reliably predict how an animal travels/groups just based off what kind of face/teeth it has. Let’s take a look at the answer choices:
Answer Choice (A) We’ve been told that diet and travel correlate, but not how. This answer requires a lot of assumptions about the actual details of the correlation.
Answer Choice (B) We’ve been told that diet correlates with face and teeth shape and size, but not the details of this correlation and certainly nothing about how overall size correlates with diet.
Answer Choice (C) This is a very specific detail. To infer it just off the two sentences we were given would require a ton of assumptions.
Answer Choice (D) What should really signal that this answer is wrong is “all that is needed”. That is a very strong claim to draw from our two sentences.
Correct Answer Choice (E) Compare the “all that is needed” of D to the mere “can” of this answer choice. Exactly as we predicted in our pre-phrase, this answer makes the relatively small inference that if diet correlates with teeth and face, and diet also correlates with how an animal travels, then there might be a correlation between teeth and face, and how an animal travels.
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Section 1 - Logic Games
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
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