LSAT 112 – Section 1 – Question 14

LSAT 112 - Section 1 - Question 14

December 2001

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT112 S1 Q14
+LR
Inference +Inf
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
3%
150
B
19%
154
C
4%
151
D
6%
156
E
68%
161
139
150
161
 +Medium 147.196 +SubsectionMedium

If Slater wins the election, McGuinness will be appointed head of the planning commission. But Yerxes is more qualified to head it since she is an architect who has been on the planning commission for fifteen years. Unless the polls are grossly inaccurate, Slater will win.

Summary
If the polls are not grossly inaccurate → Slater will win
If Slater wins → McGuinness will be appointed head of the planning commission.
Yerxes is more qualified than McGuinness to head the planning commission because she is an architect who has been on the planning commission for 15 years.

Very Strongly Supported Conclusions
If the polls are not grossly inaccurate, then someone who is less qualified than Yerxes will be appointed to head the planning commission. (This is based on connecting the two conditional statements and combining that with the fact Yerxes is more qualified than McGuinness.)

A
If the polls are grossly inaccurate, someone more qualified than McGuinness will be appointed head of the planning commission.
The stimulus tells us what will happen if the polls are NOT grossly inaccurate. But we do not know what will happen if the polls ARE grossly inaccurate. (”Unless the polls are grossly inaccurate, Slater will win” = If polls are NOT grossly inaccurate, Slater will win.)
B
McGuinness will be appointed head of the planning commission only if the polls are a good indication of how the election will turn out.
We know that if the polls are not grossly inaccurate, McGuinness will be appointed. But this doesn’t mean his appointment requires the polls to not be grossly inaccurate. He might be appointed even if the polls aren’t a good indication of how the election will turn out.
C
Either Slater will win the election or Yerxes will be appointed head of the planning commission.
If Slater does not win the election, we don’t know who will be appointed head of the planning commissions. It’s possible McGuinness could still be appointed, or perhaps someone besides McGuinness and Yerxes will be appointed.
D
McGuinness is not an architect and has not been on the planning commission for fifteen years or more.
We know that McGuinness doesn’t have both the quality of being an architect and being on the planning commission for at least 15 years, because we know he’s less qualified than Yerxes. But it’s possible McGuinness is an architect without 15 years of planning commission experience. Or he might have 15 years of planning commission experience, but without being an architect.
E
If the polls are a good indication of how the election will turn out, someone less qualified than Yerxes will be appointed head of the planning commission.
If the polls are a good indication of how the election will turn out, that means they’re not grossly inaccurate. This triggers the conditional chain in the stimulus, allowing us to know McGuinness will be appointed. And McGuinness is less qualified than Yerxes.

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