LSAT 135 – Section 2 – Question 03

LSAT 135 - Section 2 - Question 03

December 2011

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A
1%
157
B
88%
163
C
4%
156
D
5%
157
E
1%
152
125
137
150
 +Easier 146.729 +SubsectionMedium

Banking analyst: Banks often offer various services to new customers at no charge. But this is not an ideal business practice, since regular, long-term customers, who make up the bulk of the business for most banks, are excluded from these special offers.

Summarize Argument
The analyst concludes that offering free services to new customers isn't a good business practice for banks. As support, she notes that regular, long-term customers, who make up most of the business, are excluded from these offers.

Notable Assumptions
The analyst assumes that excluding regular, long-term customers from special offers is bad for banks’ business. Similarly, she assumes that excluding those customers who make up most of a banks’ business from special offers is also bad for business.

A
Most banks have similar charges for most services and pay similar interest rates on deposits.
Irrelevant. The fact that most banks have similar charges and interest rates doesn’t help to determine whether banks should exclude their long-term customers from special offers.
B
Banks do best when offering special privileges only to their most loyal customers.
If banks do best when they only give special offers to loyal customers, then it’s probably bad for business to exclude regular, long-term customers from special offers. This strengthens the conclusion that offering free services only to new customers isn't good for business.
C
Offering services at no charge to all of its current customers would be prohibitively expensive for a bank.
Even if banks can’t offer free services to all their customers, this fails to address whether only offering free services to new customers and excluding long-term customers is bad for business.
D
Once they have chosen a bank, people tend to remain loyal to that bank.
This slightly weakens the argument by suggesting that loyal customers will probably remain loyal. It doesn’t address whether excluding loyal customers from special offers is bad for business.
E
Some banks that offer services at no charge to new customers are very successful.
This slightly weakens the argument by suggesting that banks can be successful when they offer free services to new customers. But it doesn’t address whether loyal customers are excluded from these offers or whether excluding loyal customers is bad for business.

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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning

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Section 3 - Reading Comprehension

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