LSAT 17 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q5

LR Question 5 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Questions have arisen regarding the accuracy of the reports…

QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning

CONCLUSION: The archaeologists will be able to determine if the report is accurate.

REASONING: They will have full access to the documents on which the report is based.

ANALYSIS: This assumes reviewing the report’s source documents is enough to confirm its accuracy. But that only works if all relevant information was actually included in those documents. If some sales or acquisitions weren’t documented, then the reviewers wouldn’t catch the omissions, and the report could still be inaccurate.

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1. The report only covers sales and acquisitions from that same year. If an object has been in the collection for years then it couldn’t have been sold or acquired during that year.
2. That would be asking a lot of such a short little stimulus. We don’t have any reason to believe that the archaeologists’ job would be any different is the museum were small or large. This is irrelevant.
3. Same as B. It’s hard to see how this is relevant to acquisitions.
4. CORRECT. Yes. If the documents are incomplete then the documents alone will not be enough to let the researchers know if the report was accurate.
5. The argument doesn’t have to describe this. It’s only going so far as to claim that the archaeologists will be able to determine whether the report is accurate. The argument doesn’t have to say what happens next.

Recap: The question begins with “Questions have arisen regarding the accuracy of the reports”. It is a Flawed Reasoning question. Learn how to master LSAT Flaw questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.