LSAT 139 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q1

RC Question 1 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The point is that farmers might be able to avoid ruin by following Whatley’s plan for selling directly to consumers.

You can first eliminate any answers that aren’t true.

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1. CORRECT. The first paragraph and the final part of the last paragraph both confirm this point. Whatley has a plan for small farms, and this passage describes it.
2. We have no idea if large farming is sensitive to consumers’ requests. Maybe some of it is. In any case, this is only a tiny part of the passage.
3. Whatley doesn’t assess the ability of small farms to compete. He’s just giving them advice.
4. This answer isn’t even true. Whatley didn’t say all small farms risk failure.
5. This goes too far. Whatley’s plan might help small farms survive. But we don’t know if it will be enough to make them dominant.