LSAT 119 – Section 4 – Question 22

LSAT 119 - Section 4 - Question 22

June 2005

You need a full course to see this video. Enroll now and get started in less than a minute.

Ask a tutor

Target time: 2:09

This is question data from the 7Sage LSAT Scorer. You can score your LSATs, track your results, and analyze your performance with pretty charts and vital statistics - all with a Free Account ← sign up in less than 10 seconds

Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT119 S4 Q22
+LR
+Exp
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Quantifier +Quant
A
9%
158
B
3%
155
C
74%
164
D
5%
155
E
10%
155
144
153
162
 +Harder 145.1 +SubsectionEasier

J.Y.’s explanation

You need a full course to see this video. Enroll now and get started in less than a minute.

All highly successful salespersons are both well organized and self-motivated, characteristics absent from many salespersons who are not highly successful. Further, although only those who are highly successful are well known among their peers, no salespersons who are self-motivated regret their career choices.

Summary
The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences
Well known people don’t regret their career choices.

If someone is not well organized, then they are not well known.

If someone is not self motivated, then they are not well known.

A
No self-motivated salespersons who are not highly successful are well organized.
This could be false. We don’t know anything about the subset of salespersons who are both self motivated and not highly successful. We can’t say whether or not they are well organized.
B
All salespersons who are well organized but not highly successful are self-motivated.
This could be false. We don’t know anything about the group of salespersons who are both well organized and not highly successful.
C
No salespersons who are well known among their peers regret their career choices.
This must be true. This answer can be rewritten as “Well Known→ /Regret.” As shown in the diagram, by chaining the conditional claims, we see that not regretting career choices is a necessary condition of being well known.
D
All salespersons who are not well organized regret their career choices.
This could be false. “/WO→R” is not a valid inference that shows up on the diagram. It could be the case that some salesperson is not well organized and also does not regret their career choice.
E
All salespersons who do not regret their career choices are highly successful.
This could be false. (E) is an incorrect reversal of the conditional relationship. We know that all people who are highly successful do not regret their career choices. (HS→/R). (E) says “/R→HS.” This incorrectly flips the sufficient and necessary conditions.

Take PrepTest

Review Results

LSAT PrepTest 119 Explanations

Section 1 - Reading Comprehension

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

Section 4 - Logical Reasoning

Get full LSAT course

Leave a Reply