LSAT 154 – Section 2 – Question 22

LSAT 154 - Section 2 - Question 22

September 2017

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT154 S2 Q22
+LR
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
Quantifier +Quant
A
7%
156
B
16%
159
C
20%
156
D
50%
166
E
8%
157
155
162
169
 +Hardest 144.659 +SubsectionEasier

Art critic: All of Dolores Albarran’s oil paintings are highly original, though few of them are critically acclaimed or popular with collectors. Remarkably, Albarran produced no highly original works until late in her career, and few of her abstract works demonstrate much originality.

Summary

The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences

Albarran’s oil paintings were produced late in her career.

Most of Albarran’s abstract works aren’t oil paintings.

Some of Albarran’s works that aren’t critically acclaimed aren’t popular with collectors.

Some of Albarran’s works that aren’t popular with collectors are highly original.

A
Most of Albarran’s works that are not popular with collectors are highly original.

Could be false. We can say that some of her works that aren’t popular with collectors are highly original, but we don’t know that most of these paintings are highly original.

B
Few of the works produced late in Albarran’s career are abstract works.

Could be false. We just don’t know what quantity of her late works are abstract works.

C
Most, if not all, of the works produced late in Albarran’s career are oil paintings.

Could be false. We know that all oil paintings were produced late in her career; we don’t know what quantity of her late career works are oil paintings.

D
Most, if not all, of Albarran’s abstract works are not oil paintings.

Must be true. As shown below, by chaining /highly original with /oil paintings, we can make the valid argument that most of her abstract works are not oil paintings.

E
Few or none of Albarran’s critically acclaimed works are highly original.

Could be false. (E) can be understood to say “most of her critically acclaimed works are not highly original.” We can say that some of the non-critically acclaimed works are highly original, but we cannot make the inference that (E) makes.

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