LSAT 153 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q3

LR Question 3 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Food columnist: Only 2 percent of imported seafood…

QUESTION TYPE: Argument Evaluation

CONCLUSION: Domestic seafood is more likely to be safe to eat than imported seafood.

REASONING: Most imported seafood (98%) is not subjected to health safety inspections.

ANALYSIS: The author has given us a reason why imported seafood might be unsafe. But we don’t know enough about domestic seafood to know if it is any safer – it could be subjected to even lower rates of health safety inspections!.

To evaluate the argument, we need to be able to compare the two types of seafood.

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1. This sounds relevant, but remember that we don’t know anything about domestic seafood. So knowing more about health inspections doesn’t help us.
2. This answer does not draw a distinction between domestic and imported seafood. Knowing the health risks is useless to us if we still can’t compare the two.
3. Completely irrelevant. Non-seafood imports have nothing to do with whether or not domestic seafood would be safer than imported seafood.
4. Also completely irrelevant, for the same reason as answer C.
5. CORRECT. Knowing the health inspection rate of domestic seafood allows us to compare the two and actually determine whether domestic is safer than imported.

Recap: The question begins with “Food columnist: Only 2 percent of imported seafood”. It is a Argument Evaluation question. Learn how to master LSAT Evaluate questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.