LSAT 147 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q7

RC Question 7 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Passage B explicitly mentions a scientific study, and also mentions the cellular structure of muscles. The closest passage A got was saying “neurons fire muscles”.

We’re looking for something passage A doesn’t mention, so I’ll be eliminating the answers by saying that passage A did mention that answer.

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1. Passage A mentions this on lines 23-24. Also, when they say “starting from the same place” they mean “starting from the same atrophied muscle mass”.
2. Passage A mentions this in lines 19-22, describing how strength training may increase the number of neurons you can recruit.
3. See lines 13-17. Passage A says that the more you lift, the greater the percentage of muscle fibers a working muscle uses.
4. See lines 3-4. Passage A says scientific publications have hardly mentioned muscle memory.
5. CORRECT. Passage A doesn’t mention this. Passage B mentions this on lines 42-44.