LSAT 13 – Section 2 – Question 15
LSAT 13 - Section 2 - Question 15
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| Question QuickView |
Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT13 S2 Q15 |
+LR
| Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE | A
3%
160
B
4%
161
C
11%
162
D
1%
161
E
82%
169
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139 150 161 |
+Medium | 148.524 +SubsectionMedium |
This is a resolve, reconcile, explain question, as the stem asks: Which one of the following, if true, offers the best prospects of an explanation of why the two changes in smoking habits do not both result in reduced health risks?
The stimulus begins by telling us that smoking pipes or cigars is less dangerous to your health than is smoking cigarettes. The next sentence begins with however, which should always jump out at us on RRE questions because it indicates that a discrepancy is about to be introduced. In this case, the discrepancy is that quitting cigarettes sharply reduces your risk of smoking-related issues, while switching from cigarettes to cigars/pipes retains the risk level of cigarettes. Since we’ve been told pipes/cigars are less harmful, we’d expect some kind of improvement by switching to them. The correct answer will explain why we don’t see an improvement. Let’s take a look at our options:
Answer Choice (A) What we’re interested is why switching from the worst option (cigarettes) to a better one (pipes/cigars) doesn’t lead to less risk. The fact that going cold turkey is best doesn’t explain why there isn’t any improvement going from the worst to something better.
Answer Choice (B) So quitting cigarettes and then picking them back up won’t necessarily reduce your risk; but we want to know why switching from cigarettes to pipes/cigars doesn’t reduce risk!
Answer Choice (C) All this does is eliminate a possible difference between the two smoking options, without doing anything to explain why people who switch from cigarettes to cigars don’t experience improvement.
Answer Choice (D) Smokers for the most part sticking to a single option doesn’t explain why those who do completely switch to a less dangerous option don’t receive the reduced health risk associated with that option.
Correct Answer Choice (E) If what makes cigarettes worse is the way you inhale them, then if a cigarette smoker switches to another option but continues smoking the same way, it would make sense there wouldn’t be any health benefit. The difference in health benefits isn’t about what you are smoking, but how you are smoking.
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LSAT PrepTest 13 Explanations
Section 1 - Logic Games
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
- Question 26
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
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