LR Question 11 Explanation, by LSATHacks
QUESTION TEXT: Any sale i tern that is purchased…
QUESTION TYPE: Must be True
Diagram:
Sale item ➞ store credit but no refund.
Home appliances, gardening tools and some construction tools are on sale. Therefore they can be returned for store credit but not for a refund.
ANALYSIS: We don’t know anything about products that aren’t on sale. Stick to what we know.
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- We don’t know. There might be other reasons that other items can’t be returned.
- We don’t know anything about items not on sale.
- We don’t know. Maybe all construction tools are returnable. We only know some construction tools aren’t eligible for a full refund.
- CORRECT. All gardening equipment is on sale so none of it can be returned for a refund.
- We only know that some construction tools are on sale. The ones that aren’t on sale might be returnable for a refund.
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I looked over choice D because it didnt get specific enough when it spoke about the refund. The passage says a refund of the purchase price. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a refund. Maybe they refund at 75% of the value.
(1) LSAC does expect you to make common sense assumptions on the LSAT. In ordinary usage, “refund” generally implies a full refund unless otherwise specified (e.g. “a refund of 75% of the purchase price).
(2) The stimulus uses the phrase “refund of the purchase price”. You can assume that when the answer choice says “refund”, it is referring to a similar kind of refund.