LSAT 138 – Section 2 – Question 14

LSAT 138 - Section 2 - Question 14

December 2012

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT138 S2 Q14
+LR
Evaluate +Eval
A
2%
160
B
9%
158
C
4%
159
D
7%
160
E
79%
165
137
148
160
 +Medium 147.395 +SubsectionMedium

City dog licensing records show that more cocker spaniels are registered to addresses in the Flynn Heights neighborhood than to addresses in all other neighborhoods combined. So if an animal control officer finds a stray cocker spaniel anywhere near Flynn Heights, it is likely that the dog belongs to someone in Flynn Heights.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that any stray cocker spaniel found near Flynn Heights likely belongs to someone who lives in Flynn Heights. This is because there are more cocker spaniels registered to addresses if Flynn Heights than to addresses in the rest of the city as a whole.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that residents of Flynn Heights aren’t significantly more likely than other residents to register their dog. If the opposite were true, then there may be no more reason to believe a stray cocker spaniel belongs to a resident of Flynn Heights than to a resident of any other neighborhood.

A
whether cocker spaniels are more likely than dogs of other breeds to stray from their owners
The author never claims cocker spaniels get lost more than other dogs. She’s simply concluding that a stray cocker spaniel near Flynn Heights likely belongs to a resident of Flynn Heights.
B
whether there are more cocker spaniels registered to addresses in Flynn Heights than any other breed of dog
We don’t care about other dog breeds. Even if residents of Flynn Heights simply had a lot of dogs, generally, that wouldn’t challenge the claim that those residents have more cocker spaniels than all other neighborhoods combined.
C
whether the city’s animal control officers find more stray dogs in and around Flynn Heights than in any other part of the city
If animal control officers found more stray dogs around Flynn Heights, that suggests either residents of Flynn Heights have more dogs than most neighborhoods or that they’re bad at caring for their dogs. Neither option challenges the author’s argument.
D
whether the number of pets owned, per capita, is greater for residents of Flynn Heights than for residents of any other neighborhood
This doesn’t have to be true or false for the author’s argument to work. If the answer was yes, then that just means people in Flynn Heights have lots of pets. If the answer was no, then they still might have lots of cocker spaniels.
E
whether residents of Flynn Heights are more likely to license their dogs than residents of other neighborhoods are
If Flynn Heights residents are more likely to license their dogs, then the number of licensed cockers doesn’t necessarily tell us how many cocker spaniels each neighborhood has. Perhaps some neighborhoods have as many cocker spaniels—just unlicensed ones.

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