LSAT 14 – Section 4 – Question 01
LSAT 14 - Section 4 - Question 01
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
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+LR
| Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE | A
0%
157
B
5%
162
C
0%
153
D
0%
160
E
94%
164
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120 120 129 |
+Easiest | 148.739 +SubsectionMedium |
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
- 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
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- Passage 2 – Questions
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