We are taught that pedestrians should cross the street at a corner and that jaywalking, in the sense of crossing other than at a corner, is dangerous and illegal.
GIVEN THAT ...
Crossing at a crosswalk is safer than jaywalking, since drivers are expecting people to cross at a sidewalk.
HOW CAN IT BE THAT
More pedestrians die crossing the crosswalk than jaywalking?
EVALUATE
This is an often used LSAT trope. More people die using the crosswalk because way more people cross there than jaywalking.
It's kinda like saying, . That's because millions of people fly every year, but only thousands jump out of a plane.
Or like saying, That's because tens of millions of people get covid and only a few thousand get Ebola.
We measure safety in terms of %, nor raw numbers. Only 1% of people who get covid die from it, whereas 20% of people who get Ebola die from it. But 1% of 10,000,000 is still a bigger raw number than 20% of 1,000.
Similarly, maybe only 1% of people die from using the crosswalk, whereas 15% of people die from jaywalking. But 1% of a much bigger number is still a higher total than 15% of small number.
GOAL
Look for an answer resolving the paradox by saying that way more people use the crosswalk than jaywalk. (note: we usually can't predict the answer to Paradox questions, but in this case, it's just a familiar LSAT pattern that it's hard to resist).