LSAT 151 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q25

LR Question 25 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Mayor: Periodically an ice cream company will hold a free …

QUESTION TYPE: Role in Argument

CONCLUSION: Rush hour congestion will decrease if we charge people for using the roads during that time.

REASONING: When something valuable costs no money, you get overconsumption and long lines.

ANALYSIS: The mayor starts with an example (free ice cream = huge lines).

From this example, they pull out a broader principle: when something valuable is free, people overconsume it.

Then that principle is applied to roads.

So the statement is not the conclusion. It’s a general principle/rule that forms the basis of the argument. It supports the conclusion about congestion.

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1. Nothing gets rejected here. The mayor doesn’t propose one hypothesis and replace it with another.
2. No concession is happening. The mayor isn’t acknowledging an objection.
3. It does more than show that the issue matters. It’s actually part of the reasoning.
4. CORRECT. It’s a general claim that the mayor uses to support the conclusion about road pricing.
5. The overall conclusion is about charging for road use to reduce congestion, not the general claim about free goods being overconsumed.