Logical Reasoning

PT154 · S4 · Q8 Advertisement: At BigFoods, we compare

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Advertisement: At BigFoods, we compare prices for you.

Given

At BigFoods, we compare prices for you.

We recently determined which items our shoppers buy most often.

A varied sample of these items cost 10 percent more at Grocerytown than at BigFoods!

None of these regularly purchased grocery items were on sale at BigFoods.

These are our everyday prices!

Evaluate

Are you hearing these statements in a typical television commercial announcer's voice? You don't get any extra points on the LSAT for that, but it's entertaining to read it that way.

What stands out most in this information is the comparison between BigFoods and Grocerytown. We know that some items normally cost 10 percent more at Grocerytown. We know that these items are some of the ones that shoppers at BigFoods buy most often.

The type of answer that can be strongly supported by these statements is likely to be something relatively unexciting and closely related to what we already know. It might be something like, Even though this sounds like it's just repeating the information we were given, the stimulus never explicitly made this exact statement.

Goal

We'll expect a correct answer to be very similar to the information that we were given, perhaps summarizing or explicitly connecting two or more of the given statements. Beware of answers that are too strong or ones that describe related topics that were never actually mentioned in the given statements.

8.

The statements in the advertisement, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

  1. BigFoods lowered its everyday prices

    Contradicted

    We were told that none of the items mentioned were on sale at BigFoods, which contradicts the idea that BigFoods lowered their everyday prices before making the comparison. If we wanted to be picky, we might say that lowering everyday prices isn't necessarily the same as putting items on sale; however, the given statements still seem to contradict this answer and there is definitely nothing in them that supports this answer.

    1% picked this

  2. Shoppers who usually patronize Grocerytown

    Out of Scope: Grocerytown shoppers

    We can't draw any clear conclusions about why people shop at Grocerytown. BigFoods' comparison of prices only involved a certain selection of items. Maybe Grocerytown sells one or two other items at extremely low prices, and people shop at Grocerytown because of the low price of these items. Costco "loss leader" rotisserie chicken, anyone?

    2% picked this

  3. Correct

    Some of the items that

    Why this is right

    This is the type of answer we might expect, based on the given statements. It might seem like it's weirdly just restating the information that we were already given, but it actually combines information from the given statements. The stimulus doesn't explicitly state what this answer choice states.

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

    92% picked this

  4. Few of the items that

    Unsupported Distinction

    We're told that none of the items were on sale at BigFoods, but there's no indication of whether or not any of the items were on sale at Grocerytown. This answer might seem appealing because it seems to have an impact on the statements that we were given. If some or all of these items were on sale at Grocerytown and they still cost 10 percent more, that's an even better reason to shop at BigFoods. But even if they weren't on sale at Grocerytown, they still cost 10% more. There's nothing in the given statements to clearly indicate if these items were or weren't on sale there. We just know that, whatever the case, they were more expensive.

    3% picked this

  5. The items that shoppers at

    Unsupported Comparison

    The given statements focus on items that shoppers at BigFoods buy most often, and we're only comparing the prices of some of those items to the prices of the same items at Grocerytown. None of the given statements would help us determine if those are or aren't the same items that shoppers at Grocerytown buy most often.

    2% picked this

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