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

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Question 106

Plant manager: We could greatly reduce the amount of sulfur dioxide our copper-smelting plant releases into the atmosphere by using a new process. The new process requires replacing our open furnaces with closed ones and moving the copper from one furnace to the next in solid, not molten, form. However, not only is the new equipment expensive to buy and install, but the new process also costs more to run than the current process, because the copper must be reheated after it has cooled. So overall, adopting the new process will cost much but bring the company no profit.

Supervisor: I agree with your overall conclusion, but disagree about one point you make, since the latest closed furnaces are extremely fuel-efficient.

The plant manager's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?

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    The overall conclusion is about a net effect but is based solely on evidence about only some of the factors that contribute to the effect.
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    The support for the overall conclusion is the authority of the plant manager rather than any independently verifiable evidence.
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    The overall conclusion reached merely repeats the evidence offered.
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    Evidence that is taken to be only probably true is used as the basis for a claim that something is definitely true.
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    Facts that are not directly relevant to the argument are treated as if they supported the overall conclusion
Question 107

Ambiguity inspires interpretation. The saying "We are the measure of all things," for instance, has been interpreted by some people to imply that humans are centrally important in the universe, while others have interpreted it to mean simply that, since all knowledge is human knowledge, humans must rely on themselves to find the truth.

The claim that ambiguity inspires interpretation figures in the argument in which one of the following ways?

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    It is used to support the argument's conclusion.
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    It is an illustration of the claim that we are the measure of all things.
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    It is compatible with either accepting or rejecting the argument's conclusion.
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    It is a view that other statements in the argument are intended to support.
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    It sets out a difficulty the argument is intended to solve.
Question 108

Franklin: It is inconsistent to pay sports celebrities ten times what Nobel laureates are paid. Both have rare talents and work hard.

Tomeka: What you've neglected to consider is that unlike Nobel laureates, sports celebrities earn millions of dollars for their employers in the form of gate receipts and TV rights.

Franklin's and Tomeka's statements provide the most support for holding that they disagree about the truth of which one of the following?

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    Nobel laureates should be taken more seriously.
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    Nobel laureates should be paid more than sports celebrities.
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    Sports celebrities and Nobel laureates work equally hard for their employers.
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    There is no rational basis for the salary difference between sports celebrities and Nobel laureates.
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    The social contributions made by sports celebrities should be greater than they currently are.