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

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Question 151

Teacher to a student: You agree that it is bad to break promises. But when we speak to each other we all make an implicit promise to tell the truth, and lying is the breaking of that promise. So even if you promised Jeanne that you would tell me she is home sick, you should not tell me that, if you know that she is well.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the teacher's argument depends?

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    Most people always tell the truth.
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    It is sometimes better to act in a friend's best interests than to keep a promise to that friend.
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    Breaking a promise leads to worse consequences than does telling a lie.
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    Some implicit promises are worse to break than some explicit ones.
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    One should never break a promise.
Question 152

Despite the fact that antilock brakes are designed to make driving safer, research suggests that people who drive cars equipped with antilock brakes have more accidents than those who drive cars not equipped with antilock brakes.

Each of the following, if true, would help resolve the apparent discrepancy described above EXCEPT:

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    Most cars equipped with antilock brakes are, on average, driven more carelessly than cars not equipped with antilock' brakes.
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    Antilock brakes malfunction more often than regular brakes.
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    Antilock brakes require expensive specialized maintenance to be even as effective as unmaintained regular brakes.
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    Most people who drive cars equipped with antilock brakes do not know how to use those brakes properly.
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    Antilock brakes were designed for safety in congested urban driving, but accidents of the most serious nature take place on highways.
Question 153

President of the Regional Chamber of Commerce: We are all aware of the painful fact that almost no new businesses have moved into our region or started up here over the last ten years. But the Planning Board is obviously guilty of a gross exaggeration in its recent estimate that businesses are leaving the region at the rate of about four a week. After all, there were never more than about one thousand businesses in the region, so if they were really leaving at such a rate, they would all have been gone long ago.

The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the ground that it

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    focuses on what is going out of a system while ignoring the issue of what is coming into the system
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    confuses a claim about a rate of change within a system with a claim about the absolute size of the system
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    argues against a position simply by showing that the position serves the interest of the Planning Board
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    treats a claim about what is currently the case as if it were a claim about what has been the case for an extended period
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    attacks what was offered as an estimate on the ground that it is not precise