LSAT 112 | Section 1 | Logical Reasoning: Q16

LR Question 16 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: A number of measures indicate the viability of a nation’s economy…

QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported

CONCLUSION:

1. Growth, unemployment and inflation are important economic indicators.
2. A bunch of countries have good economies but are small.
3. All of the countries listed in the stimulus have populations seven million or smaller.

ANALYSIS: We’re not given any information on what effect population has on a country’s economy. Most of the wrong answers talk about this.

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1. Too strong. Maybe those countries would have even better economies if they had larger populations.
2. We don’t know anything about countries with populations larger than 7 million. Maybe they all have terrible economies.
3. CORRECT. Many of the countries listed in the stimulus have viable economies but populations smaller than 7 million. So a small country can have a good economy.
4. It’s hard to say. We only have a few scattered examples of small countries, all of which are successful. But we don’t know if size had anything to do with it.
5. We have zero information on what effect population has.