LSAT 152 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q5

LR Question 5 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Businessperson: Brenner and Chen are the only …

QUESTION TYPE: Parallel Reasoning

CONCLUSION: We should hire Chen.

REASONING: Only Brenner and Chen meet the requirements, but Brenner doesn’t get along with coworkers.

ANALYSIS: This argument is pretty straightforward.

• We only have two viable options.
• One of them has a clear downside.
• So we should pick the other one.

Note that there’s no proving Chen is great, just that Brenner is worse in at least one big way.

The correct answer should follow this structure.

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1. This says travel is cheap, so Jennifer should go now. There’s no picking between two options.
2. CORRECT. Jennifer must choose between Mexico and Peru. Peru has a problem (flooding), so eliminate it and choose Mexico. Same structure.
3. This doesn’t actually tell us what Jennifer should choose.
4. This says she should go to both places. The original argument forces a choice between two.
5. This suggests doing both trips eventually. Again, not choosing between two options.