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

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Question 379

Curator: Since ancient times, the fine arts were developed and sustained with the aid of large subsidies from the aristocracies and religious institutions that were the public sectors of their day; it is doubtful that the arts would have survived without these subsidies. Clearly, contemporary societies should fulfill their obligation as stewards of cultural heritage without the assistance of aristocracies or religious institutions, so governments must help finance the maintenance,1 advancement, and enrichment of the fine arts today.

The curator's argument depends on assuming which one of the following?

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    The fine arts would be more highly developed now if they had been given greater governmental subsidies in the past.
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    If contemporary governments help to maintain and enrich the fine arts, private support for the arts will become unnecessary.
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    In contemporary societies, aristocracies and religious institutions are not willing to help finance the fine arts.
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    Serving as stewards of cultural heritage requires that contemporary societies help to maintain the fine arts.
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    Maintenance, advancement, and enrichment of the fine arts in any era require governmental subsidies.
Question 380

In a business whose owners and employees all belong to one family, the employees can be paid exceptionally low wages. Hence, general operating expenses are much lower than they would be for other business ventures, making profits higher. So a family business is a family's surest road to financial prosperity.

The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument

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    ignores the fact that businesses that achieve high levels of customer satisfaction are often profitable even if they pay high wages
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    presumes, without providing justification, that businesses that pay the lowest wages have the lowest general operating expenses and thus the highest profits
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    ignores the fact that in a family business, paying family members low wages may itself reduce the family's prosperity
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    presumes, without providing justification, that family members are willing to work for low wages in a family business because they believe that doing so promotes the family's prosperity
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    presumes, without providing justification, that only businesses with low general operating expenses can succeed
Question 381

Studies have shown that photosynthesis, the process by which plants manufacture life-sustaining proteins from sunlight and carbon, is actually intensified if the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increased. Since carbon dioxide levels are increased by the burning of fossil fuels and by other human industrial activities, it is obvious that these industrial activities are purely beneficial to agriculture and those of us who depend upon it.

The flawed reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the following?

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    Because a high fiber diet has been shown to be more healthful than a low fiber diet, a diet in which foods with a low fiber content have been entirely replaced by foods with a high fiber content is bound to be even more healthful.
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    Because exercise has been shown to prevent a number of diseases, injuries, and other human ills, clearly no harm, and a lot of good, can come from exercise.
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    Consistently consuming more calories than one expends inevitably leads to excessive weight gain, so if one wishes to avoid the health problems associated with this condition, one ought to fast periodically.
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    It has been shown that one can obtain more vitamins and minerals from fresh fruits and vegetables than from processed fruits and vegetables. One ought, therefore, to completely abandon consumption of the latter in favor of the former.
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    Excessive use of penicillin tends to increase one's susceptibility to penicillin-resistant infections. The best policy, therefore, is to avoid using penicillin, thereby strengthening the body's innate ability to resist disease.