LR Question 10 Explanation
QUESTION TEXT: Claude: To introduce greater public accountability into French…
QUESTION TYPE: Strengthen
CONCLUSION: Claude thinks France should hold referenda on foreign policy. Lorraine disagrees.
REASONING: Claude believes that elections do not produce a mandate for foreign policy issues, and that referenda would increase public accountability.
Lorraine asserts that the public is uninformed about foreign policy.
ANALYSIS: To strengthen Lorraine’s argument, we’ll need to find an additional reason why referenda are a bad idea.
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- This weakens her argument. She’s arguing they won’t be informed.
- This doesn’t really strengthen or weaken her argument. There will be fewer referenda, but Lorraine will still believe there should not be any.
- CORRECT. Referenda would hurt France’s relations with her allies. This strengthens Lorraine’s argument that they are a bad idea.
- This strengthens Claude’s idea. Lorraine was arguing the public would be uninformed about treaties.
- This strengthens Claude’s idea that elections do not provide a mandate for future foreign policy decisions.
Recap: The question begins with “Claude: To introduce greater public accountability into French”. It is a Strengthen question. Learn more about LSAT Strengthen questions in our guide to LSAT Logical Reasoning question types.
More Resources for Strengthen Questions
- Intro Course lesson: This intro course lesson covers Strengthen questions.
- Mastery Seminar lesson: This LR Mastery seminar lesson covers strengthen questions.
Hi, Graeme first of all. thank you for the effort to come up with such useful learning tool. This is really helpful.
this problems’s answer should be C, as in your analysis , that is the only answer that strengthen Lorraine’s argument.
Ah thank you! Had a typo in where I put the “CORRECT”. Just fixed it, appreciate you letting me know.