LSAT 14 – Section 4 – Question 01

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February 1995

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve This gives you an idea of how this question is “curved”— in other words, what level of scorer is likely to get this question right. It shows a model of scaled LSAT score vs probability of getting the question correct. It is based on student test results for each question. The gray bar extends from the score for a 25% chance, to the score for a 75% chance of getting the question correct. The black line in the middle is the score for a 50% chance of getting the question correct. The percentage at the right is the expected chance of someone with the same score as you on that PrepTest getting that question correct	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT14 S4 Q01	+LR	Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE	A 0% 157 B 5% 162 C 0% 153 D 0% 160 E 94% 164	120 120 129	+Easiest	148.739 +SubsectionMedium

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This is a resolve, reconcile, or explain question, since the stem asks us: Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the study’s finding?

The stimulus begins with a yearlong study, in which half of the participants were given a kit to test their cholesterol. The result of the study was that the participants with testing kits reduced, on average, their cholesterol levels 15% more than the no-kit group. Interesting! So being able to test your cholesterol levels seems to help reduce them. The stimulus finishes with two final tidbits; the participants were (i) randomly selected, and specifically from (ii) those who have very high cholesterol levels. Our job here is to explain why having access to testing kits would enable high-cholesterol individuals to reduce their cholesterol more. We are looking for a powerful hypothesis for the difference between the kit-havers and kit-not-havers which relies on as few assumptions as possible. Let’s see what we get:

Answer Choice (A) All participants had high cholesterol, and it’s unclear how accuracy would even affect the amount participants would reduce their cholesterol.

Answer Choice (B) This would make things even more confusing, because they would have lowered their cholesterol by more while avoiding cholesterol-lowering food!

Answer Choice (C) Ok? This gives us no reason for why the tests themselves helped people lower their cholesterol levels.

Answer Choice (D) Our phenomenon is a difference between the kit-havers and kit-not-havers; this information does nothing to explain that difference among the subsets.

Correct Answer Choice (E) If using the kit reinforced cholesterol reduction efforts, then it would make sense why kit-havers reduced their cholesterol by a greater amount!

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Section 1 - Logic Games

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Reading Comprehension

Section 4 - Logical Reasoning

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