LSAT 3 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q5

LR Question 5 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: The high cost of production is severely limiting which operas…

QUESTION TYPE: Weaken

CONCLUSION: The public will be able to see less famous operas if we reduce budgets so that operas can be financed exclusively by individuals and ticket sales (and not corporate donations.)

REASONING: High budgets mean that operas must rely on corporate funding. Those corporate sponsors demand that only the most famous operas be produced.

ANALYSIS: We know that if corporations fund operas then only famous operas will be produced.

Yet it is possible that only famous operas would be produced even if corporate sponsorship went away. Maybe actors only want to be in famous operas. Or maybe the public only wants to go see famous operas.

There can always be more than one reason for anything.

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1. If it’s just a few ticket purchasers then we don’t need to care. They won’t affect much.
2. This sounds tempting, because corporations would still want to give money. But the key point is that if budgets were low then opera companies would no longer need to accept the corporate money.
3. CORRECT. This would mean that opera companies would be stuck producing famous operas whether or not corporations sponsored them.
4. Good. That’s what we want corporate sponsors to do.
5. There is no need to match corporate sponsorship. Opera companies would only have to bring in enough money to cover the costs of their reduced production budgets.

Recap: The question begins with “The high cost of production is severely limiting which operas”. It is a Weaken question. Learn how to master LSAT Weaken questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.