LSAT 21 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q3

LR Question 3 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: During 1991 the number of people in the town of Bayburg…

QUESTION TYPE: Paradox

PARADOX: Double the number of people got food aid even though the same amount of people had low incomes.

ANALYSIS: Sometimes not everybody eligible for something will apply. The correct answer explains that more people realized they could get food aid.

If more people applied then that could explain why more people received food aid.

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1. This wouldn’t affect anything: nothing changed.
2. This doesn’t explain why the amount changed. It sounds like normal operating procedure.
3. This makes it sound like there were more poor people in Bayburg. But the stimulus tells us that the number of people with low incomes stayed the same.
4. If the number of rejected applicants is unchanged, then it can’t affect anything. If fewer applicants had been rejected, that could have provided an explanation.
5. CORRECT. This means that more people realized they were eligible for food aid. So we had more applicants, even though the number of potential applicants was the same.

Recap: The question begins with “During 1991 the number of people in the town of Bayburg”. It is a Paradox question. Learn how to master LSAT Paradox questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.