LSAT 132 – Section 4 – Question 06

LSAT 132 - Section 4 - Question 06

December 2010

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT132 S4 Q06
+LR
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
91%
164
B
1%
154
C
2%
149
D
2%
155
E
4%
156
129
138
148
 +Easier 146.238 +SubsectionMedium

University administrator: Any proposal for a new department will not be funded if there are fewer than 50 people per year available for hire in that field and the proposed department would duplicate more than 25 percent of the material covered in one of our existing departments. The proposed Area Studies Department will duplicate more than 25 percent of the material covered in our existing Anthropology Department. However, we will fund the new department.

Summary

The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences

Some proposals duplicate more than 25% of the material covered in an existing department and are still funded.

There are 50+ people per year available for hire in the field of Area Studies.

A
The field of Area Studies has at least 50 people per year available for hire.

Must be true. The necessary condition for funding is: the department must not duplicate >25% of an existing department’s material, or the hiring availability threshold of 50/year must be met. The proposal duplicates >25% and will be funded, so the hiring condition must be true.

B
The proposed Area Studies Department would not duplicate more than 25 percent of the material covered in any existing department other than Anthropology.

Could be false. We have no information about whether the proposed Area Studies Department duplicates material covered in any existing department other than Anthropology, and the stimulus gives us no way to draw this inference.

C
If the proposed Area Studies Department did not duplicate more than 25 percent of the material covered in Anthropology, then the new department would not be funded.

Could be false. “/Duplicate” is not a sufficient condition for funding, so we can’t infer anything about whether the Area Studies Department would be funded if it did not duplicate more than 25% of the material covered in Anthropology (or any other department).

D
The Anthropology Department duplicates more than 25 percent of the material covered in the proposed Area Studies Department.

Could be false. If there’s more material covered in the proposed Area Studies Department than there is in the Anthropology Department, it’s possible that the Anthropology material could fail to duplicate more than 25% of the Area Studies material.

E
The field of Area Studies has fewer than 50 people per year available for hire.

Must be false. The necessary condition for funding is: the department must not duplicate >25% of an existing department’s material, or the hiring availability threshold of 50/year must be met. The proposal duplicates >25%, so there must be 50+ people available to hire per year.

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