PT111.S1.Q22

PrepTest 111 - Section 1 - Question 22

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Support No chordates are tracheophytes, and Support all members of Pteropsida are tracheophytes. ██ ██ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████████

Summary

All Ps are not Hs. This is because all Ps are Ts, and all Ts are not Cs. (Contrapositive: all Cs are not Ts.)

Missing Connection

The conclusion is about not Hs, but none of the premises mention Hs. We need to connect what the premises tell us about Ps (as a sufficient condition) to not Hs (as a necessary condition).

We can infer from the premises that all Ps are not Cs. So, suppose that all not Cs are not Hs. (Contrapositive: all Hs are Cs.) We could then infer that all Ps are not Hs. And the author’s conclusion would be guaranteed.

Note that assuming all Ts are not Hs would also guarantee the author’s conclusion. But it’s more common on the LSAT for the right answer to use all the premise connections available from the stimulus.

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22.

The conclusion above follows logically ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████████

a

All members of ███ ██████ █████████ ███ ██████████████

b

All members of ███ ██████ █████████ ███ ██████████

c

All tracheophytes are ███████ ██ ███████████

d

No members of ███ ██████ █████████ ███ ██████████

e

No chordates are ███████ ██ ███████████

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