Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT111 S1 Q7 Explanation

Due to wider commercial availability

A free, expert breakdown of this official LSAT Logical Reasoning question.

TopicsPrinciple-Conform

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Stimulus

Due to wider commercial availability of audio recordings of authors reading their own books, sales of dropped significantly.

What this question is testing

Principle-Conform

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
7.

Which one of the following conforms most closely to the principle

Answer choices

  1. Trap4% picked this

    Because of the rising cost of farm labor, farmers began to make more extensive

  2. Trap3% picked this

    Because of the wide variety of new computer games on the market, sales of high-quality computer

  3. Correct90% picked this

    Because a new brand of soft drink entered the market, consumers reduced their consumption of an established

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Principle-Conform · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  4. Trap1% picked this

    Because a child was forbidden to play until homework was completed, that child did much less daydreaming

  5. Trap1% picked this

    Because neither of the two leading word processing programs has all of the features consumers want, neither has been

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