LSAT 115 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q24

LR Question 24 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: A park’s user fees are employed to maintain the park…

QUESTION TYPE: Principle

CONCLUSION: Raising user fees improves park maintenance even if revenues used for maintenance fall as a result.

REASONING: Higher user fees result in less park users, resulting in less need for maintenance.

ANALYSIS: This question can seem long. Do yourself a favor and read through all of the answer choices at a normal pace before thinking too deeply about any of them.

Here the correct answer is E. This is an easy question if you can get all the way down there without wasting too much time on A-D. A lot of parallel reasoning questions also follow this pattern.

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1. In the stimulus, the park benefited. In this answer choice, the company does worse.
2. Are the store managers correct? Has the store benefited? This is tempting but doesn’t quite match the same clear-cut pattern.
3. Here the service gets worse. In the stimulus, things got better.
4. This involves the word “maintenance.” Other than that, this has nothing in common with the stimulus. Here the zoo had more patrons.
5. CORRECT. If you replace “library fees” with “park maintenance” and do the same with other key terms, this situation is exactly the same. Fewer patrons result in lower maintenance costs.

Recap: The question begins with “A park’s user fees are employed to maintain the park”. It is a Principle question. Learn more about LSAT Principle questions in our guide to LSAT Logical Reasoning question types.