LSAT 128 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q26

RC Question 26 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: According to the passage, Sommerer and Ott’s model …

DISCUSSION: The passage describes riddled basins of attraction as unpredictable, but only at certain points – not everywhere (first half of paragraph 3).

Paragraph 4, however, shows us that in their model, unpredictability applies to the entire system, not just certain points.

___________

1. False. We know that their model is distinct from chaos.
2. Same as A. And also, this is the reverse of what the passage says.
3. CORRECT. Read discussion above.
4. It doesn’t say adjacent points always lead to the same destination in a riddled basin of attraction.
5. Their model doesn’t guarantee that two particles placed at the same point will always have the same destination.