LSAT 136 – Section 2 – Question 14

LSAT 136 - Section 2 - Question 14

June 2012

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT136 S2 Q14
+LR
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Quantifier +Quant
A
2%
150
B
0%
149
C
96%
164
D
1%
155
E
1%
156
131
138
146
 +Easier 146.855 +SubsectionMedium

Only Canadian films are shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival. This year, most of the films that won prizes at that festival also won prizes at international film festivals.

Summary
The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences
Some of the films that were shown at the Lac festival won prizes at international film festivals.
All the films that won prizes at the Lac festival were Canadian.
Some of the films that won prizes at international film festivals this year were Canadian.

A
This year, most of the Canadian films that were shown at international film festivals won prizes at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival.
Could be false. We don’t know what percentage of the Canadian films shown at international festivals won at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival. What if the international film festivals showed 1000 Canadian films, and only 10 films total won prizes at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival?
B
Most of the Canadian films produced this year were shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival.
Could be false. The stimulus gives us no information about what percentage of Canadian films produced this year were shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival.
C
Some of the films that won prizes at international film festivals this year were Canadian films.
Must be true. When we chain the conditional claims, the “some” relationship becomes clear: all films that won at the Lac Festival were Canadian, and most of those won prizes at international festivals, so at least those films both won at international festivals and are Canadian.
D
This year, not every film that won a prize at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival was also shown at an international film festival.
Could be false. It’s very possible that every film that won a prize at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival was also shown at an international film festival—after all, most of them won at the international festivals!
E
This year, at least one film that won a prize at an international film festival was not shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival.
Could be false. Maybe the Lac Nichoutec movies were the best films in the world this year and every international festival winner was shown there! Maybe they were the only movies submitted to the international film festivals! The stimulus does nothing to make this impossible.

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