LSAT 15 – Section 2 – Question 09
LSAT 15 - Section 2 - Question 09
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| Question QuickView |
Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT15 S2 Q09 |
+LR
| Most strongly supported +MSS | A
5%
162
B
9%
160
C
3%
156
D
13%
160
E
70%
165
|
139 152 166 |
+Medium | 144.118 +SubsectionEasier |
This is a most strongly supported question, as the question stem asks: If the statements above are true, which one of the following is most strongly supported by them?
Our stimulus begins by telling us that in the last quarter century the introduction of labor-saving tech has greatly reduced the average amount of time required for a worker to produce a corresponding output. This change has the potential to reduce the number of hours workers spend working every work, and increasing the amount of time they have to themselves. Who doesn’t like the sound of that! Unfortunately, it seems the average amount of leisure time has increased at only half the rate that output has grown. What gives! Since this is a MSS question, we should treat all this information as a series of premises. The correct answer will be the conclusion which can follow from these premises with the least assumptions required. Let’s see what are options are like:
Answer Choice (A) This conclusion requires a lot of assumptions. More specifically, we have been told nothing about what workers are spending their money on. Even if they have more leisure time total, what if leisure activities have gotten much cheaper?
Answer Choice (B) We have only been told about what these technologies have done to worker output and leisure time, we know nothing about the amount of jobs they have created or replaced.
Answer Choice (C) Again, this just isn’t something we know much about. For this to follow from the information in the stimulus, we have to make a lot of assumptions.
Answer Choice (D) We’ve been told nothing about what was anticipated compared to the increase that actually occurred.
Correct Answer Choice (E) If the average hourly output has increased, and at double the rate at which average leisure time has increased, then it is highly likely that the average weekly output is higher than it was before the introduction of labor-saving technology. The weekly output is determined by the amount of hours worked in a week and the hourly output, and we know that hours worked per week has declined (leisure time) less than hourly output has increased.
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Section 1 - Reading Comprehension
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Section 3 - Logical Reasoning
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