LSAT 102 – Section 4 – Question 02

LSAT 102 - Section 4 - Question 02

June 1998

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT102 S4 Q02
+LR
Inference +Inf
Sampling +Smpl
A
1%
154
B
97%
166
C
0%
153
D
2%
154
E
0%
132
139
146
 +Easier 146.127 +SubsectionMedium

Twenty professional income-tax advisors were given identical records from which to prepare an income-tax return. The advisors were not aware that they were dealing with fictitious records compiled by a financial magazine. No two of the completed tax returns agreed with each other, and only one was technically correct.

Summary
20 pro income-tax advisors were given identical records to prepare an income-tax return. None of the completed tax returns were the exact same as each other. Only 1 out of the 20 returns was correct.

Very Strongly Supported Conclusions
Not every pro income-tax advisor will produce the same tax return from the same records.
Being a pro income-tax advisor does not guarantee that one will always produce a correct tax return.

A
Only one out of every twenty income-tax returns prepared by any given professional income-tax advisor will be correct.
We only know about one tax return prepared by each of the 20 advisors. We don’t have any information about how advisors would perform across multiple different tax returns.
B
The fact that a tax return has been prepared by a professional income-tax advisor provides no guarantee that the tax return has been correctly prepared.
This is supported by the fact that only 1 out of the 20 returns was correct. So the other 19 returns, even though they were prepared by a pro income-tax advisor, were wrong. This shows being prepared by a pro advisor does not guarantee a return will be correct.
C
In order to ensure that tax returns are correct, it is necessary to hire professional income-tax advisors to prepare them.
The stimulus doesn’t give us any evidence about what’s required for being correct.
D
All professional income-tax advisors make mistakes on at least some of the tax returns they prepare.
We don’t have evidence that every pro advisor makes mistakes. All we know is that 19 out of the 20 made a mistake on one tax return. But the one advisor who got the return correct might never make mistakes.
E
People are more likely to have an incorrectly prepared tax return if they prepare their own tax returns than if they hire a professional income-tax advisor.
The stimulus doesn’t present evidence concerning a comparison between self-prepared returns and pro-prepared returns.

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