LSAT 132 – Section 2 – Question 21

LSAT 132 - Section 2 - Question 21

December 2010

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT132 S2 Q21
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Quantifier +Quant
A
3%
157
B
14%
158
C
17%
160
D
10%
162
E
56%
166
151
161
171
 +Hardest 148.345 +SubsectionMedium

Most large nurseries sell raspberry plants primarily to commercial raspberry growers and sell only plants that are guaranteed to be disease-free. However, the shipment of raspberry plants that Johnson received from Wally’s Plants carried a virus that commonly afflicts raspberries.

Summary
Most large nurseries sell raspberry plants primarily to commercial raspberry growers. These large nurseries only sell plants that are guaranteed to be disease-free. However, Johnson received a shipment of raspberries with a disease from Wally’s plants.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
Large nurseries -most-> sell to commercial raspberry growers
Large nurseries -most-> guarantee disease-free plants.
If Wally’s plants is a large nursery, it probably broke its guarantee.

A
If Johnson is a commercial raspberry grower and Wally’s Plants is not a large nursery, then the shipment of raspberry plants that Johnson received was probably guaranteed to be disease-free.
The stimulus does not give any information about non-large raspberry nurseries. Thus, this answer choice has no support.
B
Johnson is probably not a commercial raspberry grower if the shipment of raspberry plants that Johnson received from Wally’s Plants was not entirely as it was guaranteed to be.
This does not consider that Wally’s Plants might not be a large nursery and has no guarantee to sell disease-free plants. Nothing in the stimulus says that Wally’s Plants is a large nursery, and it is unreasonable to assume that it is.
C
If Johnson is not a commercial raspberry grower, then Wally’s Plants is probably not a large nursery.
Johnson’s status as a commercial raspberry farmer has no bearing on whether Wally’s Plants is a large nursery. The stimulus says that most large nurseries *primarily* sell to commercial raspberry growers, not exclusively.
D
Wally’s Plants is probably not a large, well-run nursery if it sells its raspberry plants primarily to commercial raspberry growers.
Nothing in the stimulus provides information about what constitutes a “well-run” nursery.
E
If Wally’s Plants is a large nursery, then the raspberry plants that Johnson received in the shipment were probably not entirely as they were guaranteed to be.
This answer choice is great because it assumes that Wally’s Plants *is* a large nursery. Thus, you can infer that Johnson’s raspberries were probably not as they were guaranteed because large nurseries mostly ship to commercial growers and promise healthy raspberries.

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