LSAT 14 – Section 4 – Question 03

LSAT 14 - Section 4 - Question 03

February 1995

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
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PT14 S4 Q03
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
A
0%
B
0%
155
C
93%
165
D
4%
159
E
3%
156
123
135
146
 +Easier 148.739 +SubsectionMedium

This is a resolve reconcile explain question, as the question stem asks: Which one of the following, if true, is most helpful in resolving the apparent paradox?

The stimulus opens with a study by the government, which discovered that consumers who opted for bottled water were receiving a more expensive and dangerous product than the public water supply. Seems like a bad deal! Weirdly, even though the study received a lot of attention, people have been buying even more bottled water. The question stem asks us to resolve a paradox; in this case the paradox is that the opposite outcome we would have expected followed the release of the study. Our job is to select the answer choice which provides the best hypothesis for why this weird result occurred. Let’s see what we get:

Answer Choice (A) This seems like another reason for why people should be choosing drinking water instead of bottled water, and does nothing to explain the fact that they aren’t.

Answer Choice (B) This eliminates a potential difference between the two water sources which might explain the consumer preference, and therefore makes the result even weirder without explaining it at all.

Correct Answer Choice (C) This answer explains the paradox by differentiating between subsets of bottled water. Although many kinds of bottled water were less safe than public water, the increase in sales actually came from specifically the brands that were identified as superior to public water in the report.

Answer Choice (D) This makes it slightly less weird, but still does nothing to explain why there was an increase at all.

Answer Choice (E) We are talking about bottled water, not food, and regardless this suggests that consumers do care about what the government says, which makes their apparent disregard of the study stranger.

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Section 1 - Logic Games

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Section 3 - Reading Comprehension

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