LSAT 119 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q8

LR Question 8 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Some students attending a small university with a well-known choir…

QUESTION TYPE: Sufficient Assumption

CONCLUSION: The professor concludes no music majors live off campus.

REASONING: Because…all music majors are in the choir?

ANALYSIS: This doesn’t make any sense, but it’s our job to make it work.

If no off-campus student was in the choir the conclusion would follow, because all music students are in the choir.

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1. CORRECT. Yup. If off-campus students aren’t in the choir, they aren’t music majors.
2. We already know that music members join the choir. This adds nothing.
3. It’s very likely that some students who live on campus aren’t music majors. That’s true of almost any college. …This doesn’t help.
4. That’s a little weird, but it still doesn’t necessarily mean that all off-campus students are music majors. Maybe the only residence is a choir hall.
5. Ok. But how does this help us conclude that no off-campus students are music majors?

Recap: The question begins with “Some students attending a small university with a well-known choir”. It is a Sufficient Assumption question. Learn more about LSAT Sufficient questions in our guide to LSAT Logical Reasoning question types.