LSAT 118 – Section 3 – Question 24

LSAT 118 - Section 3 - Question 24

December 2004

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT118 S3 Q24
+LR
+Exp
Must be true +MBT
A
3%
159
B
70%
168
C
10%
160
D
13%
162
E
3%
162
149
158
167
 +Harder 146.785 +SubsectionMedium

The increasing complexity of scientific inquiry has led to a proliferation of multiauthored technical articles. Reports of clinical trials involving patients from several hospitals are usually coauthored by physicians from each participating hospital. Likewise, physics papers reporting results from experiments using subsystems developed at various laboratories generally have authors from each laboratory.

Summary

The increasing complexity of scientific inquiry has caused a proliferation of multiauthored technical articles. Reports of clinical trials with patients from several hospitals are usually coauthored by physicians from each hospital. Physics papers reporting results from experiments using subsystems developed at several laboratories usually have authors from each laboratory.

Notable Valid Inferences

Most reports of clinical trials with patients from several hospitals are coauthored.

Most physics papers reporting results from experiments using subsystems developed at several laboratories are coauthored.

A
Clinical trials involving patients from several hospitals are never conducted solely by physicians from just one hospital.

Could be false. To say that these clinical trials are never conducted by a sole physician is too extreme. We know that these trials are usually conducted by multiple physicians, but this does not mean that all of them are.

B
Most reports of clinical trials involving patients from several hospitals have multiple authors.

Must be true. We know that most of these reports have multiple authors because the stimulus tells us that usually these reports are coauthored by physicians from each participating hospital.

C
When a technical article has multiple authors, they are usually from several different institutions.

Could be false. The information in the stimulus is restricted to certain clinical trials and physics papers. Applying this idea to all technical articles generally is too extreme.

D
Physics papers authored by researchers from multiple laboratories usually report results from experiments using subsystems developed at each laboratory.

Could be false. This answer choice reverses the relationship in the stimulus. The stimulus tells us that usually physics papers about experiments using subsystems developed at each laboratory have authors from each laboratory.

E
Most technical articles are authored solely by the researchers who conducted the experiments these articles report.

Could be false. The information in the stimulus is restricted to certain clinical trials and physics papers. Applying this idea to all technical articles generally is too extreme.

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LSAT PrepTest 118 Explanations

Section 1 - Logical Reasoning

Section 2 - Reading Comprehension

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

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