LSAT 155 | Section 1 | Logical Reasoning: Q4

LR Question 4 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Zahler Motors executive: The Graham Motor Company should…

QUESTION TYPE: Principle

CONCLUSION: Zahler: The Graham Motor Company should stop running its misleading commercial.

Graham: The commercial is not misleading.

REASONING: Zahler: The commercial states that Zahler’s minivans do not have a foldable third-row seat. However, our newest model has a foldable third-row seat.

Graham: Zahler dealers still sell the previous minivans without the foldable third-row seat.

ANALYSIS: This is a very unusual question – almost a mix of a Most Strongly Supported question, an Agreement question, and a Principle question. We need to figure out what the difference is between the two executives’ principles that allows them to reach different conclusions from the same facts.

The Graham executive tells us why they believe that the commercial is not misleading: the Zahler dealers still sell a minivan without a foldable third-row seat. The Zahler executive clearly disagrees. The correct answer will be a principle justifying the conclusion of the Graham executive and not the Zahler executive.

___________

1. CORRECT. Some instances of the Zahler minivan lack the foldable third row seat, so by this principle the commercial is not misleading. This is the Graham executive’s conclusion. The Zahler executive must not accept this principle, because if they did then they would agree.
2. The Graham executive still maintains their conclusion even after being told about the foldable third-row seat in newer Zahler models. Thus, this principle is not what their conclusion is based on.
3. We don’t actually know anything about what most consumers base their decisions on, so this is incorrect.
4. This answer choice tells us what is misleading, but the Graham executive is declaring something not misleading. So this choice is incorrect.
5. See D – we want to define what isn’t misleading.

Recap: The question begins with “Zahler Motors executive: The Graham Motor Company should”. It is a Principle question. Learn more about LSAT Principle questions in our guide to LSAT Logical Reasoning question types.