LSAT 154 – Section 4 – Question 08

LSAT 154 - Section 4 - Question 08

September 2017

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PT154 S4 Q08
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Sampling +Smpl
Math +Math
A
1%
152
B
2%
157
C
94%
164
D
2%
152
E
1%
150
124
134
143
 +Easiest 147.301 +SubsectionMedium

Advertisement: At BigFoods, we compare prices for you. We recently determined which items our shoppers buy most often. A varied sample of these items cost 10 percent more at Grocerytown than at BigFoods! None of these regularly purchased grocery items were on sale at BigFoods—these are our everyday prices!

Summary

The advertisement says that BigFoods has figured out which items their shoppers buy most often. BigFoods then picked out some of those items, and compared the cost of that sample to the cost of the same items at Grocerytown, where they cost 10 percent more. The sample also used the regular, non-sale prices at BigFoods.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Based on this advertisement, we can conclude:

Some items cost at least 10 percent less at BigFoods than those same items cost at Grocerytown.

Some of the items that cost less at BigFoods are among those items most purchased by BigFoods shoppers.

A
BigFoods lowered its everyday prices before making the comparison with Grocerytown.

This is not supported. The advertisement doesn’t mention anything about BigFoods lowering prices, nor does it say anything else that would lead us to that conclusion.

B
Shoppers who usually patronize Grocerytown prefer to shop there for some reason other than its prices.

This is not supported. Based on the advertisement, we don’t know anything about why someone would prefer to shop at Grocerytown, for its prices or otherwise. We don’t even know if the prices are actually higher across the board at Grocerytown, or only on a few items sampled.

C
Some of the items that shoppers at BigFoods buy most often are less expensive at BigFoods than at Grocerytown.

This is strongly supported. The advertisement explains that a sample of the most-purchased items at BigFoods overall cost less than at Grocerytown. That means that some individual most-purchased items must also cost less at BigFoods.

D
Few of the items that shoppers at BigFoods buy most often were on sale at Grocerytown when the price comparison was carried out.

This is not supported. We simply have no way to know whether the items compared were on sale at Grocerytown or not; all we know is that the price of the sample was overall lower at BigFoods.

E
The items that shoppers at BigFoods buy most often are not the same as those that shoppers at Grocerytown buy most often.

This is not supported. The advertisement doesn’t indicate if the items BigFood shoppers buy most often are also bought most often at Grocerytown or not, so we can’t come to a conclusion one way or the other.

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