LSAT 14 – Section 2 – Question 05
LSAT 14 - Section 2 - Question 05
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| Question QuickView |
Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
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| PT14 S2 Q05 |
+LR
| Except +Exc Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE | A
3%
160
B
1%
156
C
6%
160
D
86%
165
E
4%
157
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130 142 154 |
+Medium | 148.522 +SubsectionMedium |
This is an EXCEPT resolve, reconcile, explain question, indicated in the question stem by: Each of the following, if true, helps resolve the apparent discrepancy EXCEPT:
The stimulus tells us that on average people spend significantly less time reading now than 50 years ago, but many more books are bought overall. There is an intuitive discrepancy between a decrease in reading and increase in books sold, but we should recognize that there are a lot of ways of explaining it. For example, we are comparing an average to a total; if the population has increased, then we would expect more books to be sold even if the rate at which people read them, and hence bought them, decreased. That also leads to another obvious issue; can we assume people buying books means they read them? If you are anything like me, you are much better at buying books than reading them. Maybe people just have more income to spend so they are buying more books, even though they don’t have as much time to read! Since this is an EXCEPT question, we are looking for the one answer that doesn’t explain the apparent discrepancy. Let’s see what we get!
Answer Choice (A) This is one issue we identified in the stimulus; more people means more books sold, even if, on average, people read less.
Answer Choice (B) Ok, so maybe people are reading less but a larger share of readers purchase their books rather than borrow them. Makes sense!
Answer Choice (C) So a subset of literate people have a reason to purchase more books even if the set as a whole is reading less.
Correct Answer Choice (D) What people do with their books doesn’t really help us if it doesn’t explain how sales could be higher while reading declined
Answer Choice (E) If books are shorter, then people could be reading less while buying more books!
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LSAT PrepTest 14 Explanations
Section 1 - Logic Games
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
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