LSAT 156 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q5

LR Question 5 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Gahagan’s Greenstore sells a large volume of plants …

QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported

FACTS:

• The store sells a lot of plants, mostly to landscape contractors
• He also sells a lot of gardening implements, mostly to home gardeners

ANALYSIS: This is a most strongly supported question, so stay very close to the wording.

The key facts are all about plants, not implements. We’re told most plant sales are wholesale, and most of those wholesale buyers are landscape contractors. That means a randomly chosen plant sale is very likely to trace back to a landscape contractor.

You do not need to know anything exact about home gardeners. Once you know that the vast majority of plant sales are going wholesale, and most of that wholesale group is landscape contractors, landscape contractors are the safest bet.

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1. This goes way too far. We know Gahagan’s sells a lot of plants, but we know nothing about profit margins or profits from other products.
2. This is not supported. Even if most wholesale buyers purchase plants, we do not know whether they also buy implements.
3. This compares the number of commercial buyers to the number of home gardeners, but the stimulus only tells us about purchase patterns, not customer counts.
4. This is possible, but not supported. We know most implements are bought retail by home gardeners, but that does not prove that any are sold wholesale.
5. CORRECT. Since most plant sales are wholesale and most of those wholesale buyers are landscape contractors, a plant sale is more likely to involve a landscape contractor than a home gardener.