LSAT 8 – Section 4 – Question 11
LSAT 8 - Section 4 - Question 11
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| Question QuickView |
Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
Curve | Question Difficulty |
Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT8 S4 Q11 |
+LR
| Strengthen +Streng | A
65%
165
B
2%
160
C
2%
159
D
1%
164
E
31%
160
|
138 154 170 |
+Harder | 147.662 +SubsectionMedium |
Here we have a strengthening questions: Which one of the following most strongly supports the explanation given in the argument?
Our stimulus begins with a phenomenon; distemper virus has caused two thirds of the seal population of the north sea to die since 1988. Our author then offers the hypothesis that the reason the normally latent virus has acted up is that pollution weakened the seals immune systems. Since this is a strengthening question and we have a hypothesis, a great answer would be one which eliminates an alternative explanation for why the virus killed so many seals, or introduces more information consistent with the hypothesis. Let’s see what we get!
Correct Answer Choice (A) If pollution is weakening the immune system of the seals, we would expect it might be doing this to other animals! This answer introduces a result we would expect if our hypothesis was true, and therefore strengthens it.
Answer Choice (B) Good for them, but this doesn’t strengthen our hypothesis. If anything it weakens it since our hypothesis requires “severe” pollution and this suggests pollution could be much better than it was before.
Answer Choice (C) I certainly hope the pollution isn’t that bad then, but this does nothing for our argument.
Answer Choice (D) This is just a factoid.
Answer Choice (E) This weakens our argument by introducing an alternate explanation.
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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 12
- Question 14
- Question 15
- Question 16
- Question 17
- Question 18
- Question 19
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 2 - Logic Games
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
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