LSAT 143 – Section 3 – Question 15

LSAT 143 - Section 3 - Question 15

June 2015

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
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PT143 S3 Q15
+LR
Sufficient assumption +SA
Link Assumption +LinkA
A
1%
149
B
5%
157
C
1%
148
D
10%
161
E
83%
165
136
147
157
 +Medium 147.721 +SubsectionMedium

J.Y.’s explanation

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Ninety percent of recent car buyers say safety was an important factor in their purchase. Yet of these car buyers, only half consulted objective sources of vehicle safety information before making their purchase; the others relied on advertisements and promotional materials. Thus, these other buyers were mistaken in saying that safety was important to them.

Summary
The author concludes that safety was not important to the buyers who relied on ads and promo materials. This is based on the fact that those buyers did not consult objective sources of vehicle safety info before making their purchases.

Missing Connection
The conclusion asserts that, for certain buyers, safety isn’t important to them. But the premise doesn’t establish what what kind of person does not consider safety important. All the premise establishes is that those buyers didn’t consult objective sources of safety info. Does failure to consult objective sources of safety info guarantee that one does not find safety important? No.
So we want to establish that if one doesn’t consult objective sources of safety info before a purchase, one does not find safety important. Or, in other words, if one finds safety important, one will consult objective sources of safety info before a purchase.

A
Someone who claims that safety was an important factor in a buying decision does not necessarily mean that safety was the most important factor.
The argument doesn’t concern what was the “most” important. We’re trying to establish that certain buyers did not find safety to be important at all.
B
Advertisements and promotional materials sometimes provide incomplete vehicle safety information.
(B) doesn’t establish what people who rely on ads and promo materials find important. The conclusion concerns something inside the buyers’ mind — do they consider safety important or not? An answer that merely describes what’s in ads and promo materials does not establish what the buyers value or think to be important.
C
Recent car buyers do not necessarily tell the truth when asked about the factors that contributed to their vehicle purchases.
(C) doesn’t establish that the buyers who rely on ads and promo materials don’t find safety important. Although some recent car buyers don’t necessarily tell the truth about purchase factors, that doesn’t guarantee that the people who rely on ads and promos are the ones who aren’t telling the truth, nor does it guarantee that the thing they aren’t telling the truth about is whether safety is important to them.
D
Most consumers are aware that advertisements and promotional materials are not objective sources of vehicle safety information.
Even if most consumers know that ads and promos aren’t objective, that doesn’t imply that the people who do rely on ads and promos have such awareness. Maybe they are part of the minority who don’t know that these materials aren’t objective. In any case, even if they were aware the materials aren’t objective, that wouldn’t guarantee that they don’t find safety important.
E
Anyone to whom safety is an important factor in purchasing a car will consult an objective source of vehicle safety information before buying.
We know from a premise that people who rely on ads/promos didn’t consult objective sources before buying. So, according to (E), they can’t be among the people who find safety an important factor. If they were among those people, then they would have consulted an objective source.

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