LSAT 158 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q6

LR Question 6 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Dark honey tends to have a higher antioxidant content …

QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported

FACTS:

1. Dark honey usually has more antioxidants than light honey.
2. The healthiest honeys have especially high antioxidants.
3. Honeys from sage nectar are among the most healthy AND the lightest.

ANALYSIS: Let’s refer to these honeys in the last sentence as sage nectar for the sake of simplicity.

We know some sage nectar is very healthy and also very light.

Because it’s light, it probably has less antioxidants than dark honey. But that’s a relative comparison, and we don’t have any specific examples of dark honey, so we can’t draw anything too conclusive from that.

Because it’s very healthy, we know it has to be unusually high in antioxidants (see fact 2). This is something conclusive that follows.

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1. CORRECT. This follows directly: if sage honey is very healthful, and healthful honey is high in antioxidants, then some sage honey must be high in antioxidants.
2. Nothing tells us what most plants produce.
3. Dark honey tends to have more antioxidants, so if there is overlap with healthiness, we would expect the opposite of this answer choice. But we don’t know whether there’s an overlap between the reasons for antioxidants in health and color, so we can’t conclude anything on that.
4. You might be tempted to pick this since only some sage nectar is very healthy. But that doesn’t mean the rest necessarily have to be unusually low in antioxidants. Maybe they have normal amounts.
5. This is too strong. We only know some light honey (sage nectar) is high in antioxidants, not that the highest is light.