Logical Reasoning

PT113 · S2 · Q12 Rosen: One cannot prepare a good meal

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

  • Save & drill this skill — build targeted practice sets from questions like this one

  • Video walkthroughs — watch every question solved step by step

  • 81 official LSATs — as questions, timed sections & full-length tests

Start practicing free

Rosen: One cannot prepare a good meal from bad food, produce good food from bad soil, maintain good soil without good farming, or have good farming without a culture that places value on the proper maintenance of all its natural resources so that needed supplies are always available.

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.

12.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from Rosen's statement?

  1. Correct

    The creation of good meals

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

    Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    73% picked this

  2. Natural resources cannot be maintained

    Trap

    6% picked this

  3. Good soil is a prerequisite

    Trap

    12% picked this

  4. Any society with good cultural

    Trap

    2% picked this

  5. When food is bad, it

    Trap

    7% picked this

Continue the review in LSAT Lab

Save this question, watch the video walkthrough, and drill similar questions in your LSAT Lab account.

Save and practice this skill
LSAT Lab

Turn this review into a targeted study plan.

Save this question, drill more like it, watch the video walkthrough, and track your progress in your LSAT Lab account.

Start practicing free