LSAT 102 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q19

LR Question 19 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Inez: In these poor economic times, people want to be…

QUESTION TYPE: Method of Reasoning

CONCLUSION: There’s no advantage to hiring experts to appraise our techniques.

REASONING: We’d have to raise the prices if we hired outside experts, and it would be useless, because our customers are already experts.

ANALYSIS: Anika makes a compelling argument. There’s no advantage to the plan: the customers are already experts. And we’d have to raise prices, so the plan would turn customers away.

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1. CORRECT. The plan would make people buy less. There’s be no advantage, because the customers can judge quality for themselves. And there’d be a disadvantage: we’d have to raise prices.
2. The plan won’t be effective: the expert customers can judge quality for themselves.
3. Anika doesn’t propose any alternative.
4. Anika agrees that we could hire experts. She just thinks it’s useless, since the customers are also experts.
5. There’s no counterexample; Anika doesn’t mention any specific situation.

Recap: The question begins with “Inez: In these poor economic times, people want to be”. It is a Method of Reasoning question. Learn how to master LSAT Method of Reasoning questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.