LSAT 147 – Section 1 – Question 03

LSAT 147 - Section 1 - Question 03

September 2016

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PT147 S1 Q03
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
A
0%
154
B
1%
149
C
1%
153
D
98%
162
E
0%
160
123
130
138
 +Easiest 147.09 +SubsectionMedium

In recent decades, government efforts to fight counterfeiting have been extremely successful, especially efforts to remove counterfeit bills from circulation. Yet counterfeiters are not finding it at all difficult to get away with passing counterfeit bills to merchants and even banks.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
How can the government’s efforts to remove counterfeit bills from circulation be extremely successful while counterfeiters are easily passing counterfeit bills to merchants and banks?

Objective
The right answer will explain how successful government removal of counterfeit bills from circulation does not necessarily (and, in this case, largely does not) preclude counterfeiters from passing their bills to merchants and banks.

A
Government information campaigns that teach merchants and bank tellers how to detect counterfeit bills are more effective than ever.
This does the opposite of what we need. If counterfeit detection campaigns are more effective than ever, we would expect it to be more difficult for counterfeiters to pass their bills to banks and merchants.
B
Governments are continually developing new currency designs with features that are difficult for criminals to counterfeit.
This does the opposite of what we need. New and complex currency designs would likely make it harder for counterfeiters to pass their bills off as real, but we know that they’re having an easy time doing so. We want to know how.
C
Counterfeiters are generally unaware that the percentage of fake bills in circulation is the lowest it has ever been.
This doesn’t matter to us. Whether or not counterfeiters are aware of the percentage of fake bills in circulation, they are passing off their bills easily. We want to know how.
D
Government success in removing counterfeit bills from circulation has caused merchants and bank tellers to become lax in checking for counterfeit bills.
This gives an explanation of how counterfeiters are able to pass off their bills while government counterfeit bill removal programs are successful: merchants and bank tellers, calmed by the government’s success, are being less careful with the bills they accept.
E
Governments are spending larger and larger sums of money in their efforts to remove counterfeit bills from circulation.
This doesn’t matter to us. Increased government spending might contribute to the success of the removal project, but we don’t care why the project is successful. That doesn’t help us understand how counterfeiters are easily passing their bills to merchants and banks.

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