QUESTION TYPE: Must be True
FACTS:
- Successful entrepreneur —> main desire to leave mark
- See solution, implement idea —> successful entrepreneur, and also successful entrepreneur —> see solution, implement idea (Note: “are unique” means that successful entrepreneur is both a sufficient and a necessary condition for seeing a solution and implementing an idea)
- All other people…. (This sentence is irrelevant. It’s just providing a reason for #2, and can be ignored)
ANALYSIS: This is actually a really straightforward conditional chain. Just link the first two sentences: See solution, implement idea —> successful entrepreneur —> main desire to leave mark
Note that there’s uncommon condition language here: “are unique”. It shows a necessary condition and a sufficient condition. If I say: “Donald Trump is unique in that he is currently the only man who is US president” that is drawn as “US president —> Donald Trump”. (Accurate at time of writing). But we also get “Donald Trump —> US president”. So the way “are unique” is used in this argument makes it biconditional.
The final sentence is distracting filler. It is a conditional statement, but it doesn’t connect to anything. You could draw it as this: successful entrepreneur —> don’t always implement ideas due to wanting leisure or job security.
It’s not useful to draw that! It just repeats the info from the third paragraph. Drawing should be a judgement call: does this info seem like it connects? You only draw if it seems to connect to something else. With a question like this, LSAC is specifically testing your ability to spot and ignore filler.
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- This incorrectly combines part of the first sentence with the final sentence. Regular people might want to make their mark on the world! They just fail to do it, because leisure and security get in the way. There’s no logical contradiction in wanting something you will never have.
- This isn’t supported. Only highly successful entrepreneurs implement their solutions to all problems, and we aren’t told if they value leisure time or job security at all. It’s at least implied they don’t value it highly, and it’s possible they attach zero value to leisure.
- CORRECT. See the discussion above. This answer comes from joining the two first statements in the “facts” section.
- This is tantalizingly close. If it had said “on their ability to implement a solution to a problem they think of”, this would be correct.
But this talks about hurting their ability to see a problem. The stimulus wasn’t saying successful entrepreneurs’ unique characteristic is that they see all problems. Instead, their characteristic is that when they do see a problem they can solve, they try to solve it, without fail. It is the constant effort to solve problems that is unique, and this answer doesn’t mention that. - This gets the conditional chain from the stimulus backwards. Having the main desire be to leave a mark is the necessary condition for being a successful entrepreneur. This answer treats it as a sufficient condition.
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