LSAT 15 – Section 2 – Question 05

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June 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
PT15 S2 Q05	+LR	Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE	A 98% 164 B 0% 163 C 0% 153 D 0% 143 E 2% 154	120 128 137	+Easiest	144.118 +SubsectionEasier

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Here we have a resolve reconcile explain question, since it asks: Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy?

Our stimulus begins by telling us that Mr. Young has the highest rate of unsuccessful collections at a collection agency. However, he is the best bill collector the agency has. The discrepancy is that we would expect a good bill collector to have less unsuccessful collections. We want to resolve this discrepancy by finding an answer choice which explains why Mr. Young might have a lot of unsuccessful collections in a way that is compatible with him being the best bill collector. Let’s see what we get!

Correct Answer Choice (A) This does exactly what we want! It would make sense that the hardest cases go to the best bill collector, and that the difficulty of these cases would lead to more unsuccessful collections.
Answer Choice (B) That’s very nice of the other bill collectors, but their opinions don’t do anything to explain why he has so many unsuccessful cases!
Answer Choice (C) Interesting! But again, his rate of collections remaining constant doesn’t explain a high rate of failed collections compared to others.

Answer Choice (D) Save it for his biography, this does nothing to help us!

Answer Choice (E) This just gives us another reason why we’d expect him to have a lower rate of unsuccessful collections compared to his juniors.

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LSAT PrepTest 15 Explanations

Section 1 - Reading Comprehension

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

Section 4 - Logic Games

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