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LSAT-Section-1-Logical-Reasoning – Section One : Logical Reasoning

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Question 370

Unlike newspapers in the old days, today's newspapers and televised news programs are full of stories about murders and assaults in our city. One can only conclude from this change that violent crime is now out of control, and, to be safe from personal attack, one should not leave one's home except for absolute necessities.

Which one of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the conclusion?

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    Newspapers and televised news programs have more comprehensive coverage of violent crime than newspapers did in the old days.
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    National data show that violent crime is out of control everywhere, not just in the author's city.
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    Police records show that people experience more violent crimes in their own neighborhoods than they do outside their neighborhoods.
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    Murder comprised a larger proportion of violent crimes in the old days than it does today.
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    News magazines play a more important role today in informing the public about crime than they did in the old days.
Question 371

Most people invest in the stock market without doing any research of their own. Some of these people rely solely on their broker's advice, whereas some others make decisions based merely on hunches. Other people do some research of their own, but just as often rely only on their broker or on hunches. Only a few always do their own research before investing. Nonetheless, a majority of investors in the stock market make a profit.

If the statements in the passage are true, which one of the following must also be true?

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    Some people who make a profit on their investments in the stock market do so without doing any research of their own.
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    Most people who invest in the stock market either rely solely on their broker or make decisions based merely on hunches.
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    Some people who do investment research on their own, while just as often relying on their broker or on hunches, make a profit in the stock market.
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    Most people who invest in the stock market without doing any research of their own make a profit.
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    Most people who rely solely on their broker rather than on hunches make a profit in the stock market.
Question 372

At some point in any discussion of societal justice, the only possible doctrinal defense seems to be "That is the way we do things here." Different communities that each recognize the dignity and equality of all citizens- will, for example, nevertheless settle on somewhat different provisions for the elderly. So we can see that general principles of justice are never sufficient to determine the details of social policies fixed within a particular state.

Which one of the following statements, if true, most strengthens the argument concerning the general principles of justice?

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    Although two socialist states each adhered to the same electoral principles, one had a different type of machine for counting ballots in public elections than the other did.
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    Two democratic industrial states, both subscribing to capitalistic economic principles, differed markedly in the respective proportions of land they devoted to forestry.
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    Although each adhered to its own principles, a democracy and a monarchy each had the same distribution of wealth in its population.
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    Two states founded on and adhering to similar principles of justice had different requirements that had to be met in order to be eligible for government-subsidized daycare.
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    Two societies based on different principles of justice, each adhering to its own principles, had the same unemployment benefits.