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Vinny Gambini
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PT1, S1, Q7 - Game Duck Western Lake question
At first I choose D after eliminating the answer choices. Ofcourse, it was wrong. I realize after the fact, that number of nonadult ducks hatched in a breeding season is higher in the eastern lake's population than in the Western population. I realized that this was not discussed in detail. So, I went with A and realized the first three sentences and the conclusion makes it correct. Is that correct. Can you go through the answer choices at length.
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Atticus Finch
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Re: PT1, S1, Q7 - Game Duck Western Lake question
(A) is indeed the correct answer.
Let's think about this problem in terms of singles bars (helps for me, hopefully it helps for you too) --
Here's an analogous argument:
Among those in their twenties who go to singles bars, slightly more men than women go.
Among those in their fifties who go to singles bars, a lot more men than women go.
And imagine, for the sake of this argument, that this is consistently true of bars around the world.
So...
We have two bars: Western and Eastern.
Western has a pretty small disparity between the number of men and women.
Eastern has a big disparity between the number of men and women.
That must mean that more younger singles are hanging out at Western and
More older singles are hanging out at Eastern.
In this LSAT problem, the smaller disparity for Western lake indicates a higher % of nonadult ducks (i.e. younger singles) as compared to eastern lake.
Which answer is most provable?
(A) This is equivalent to saying Western has a lower percentage of old guys than Eastern does. We know that's true (older singles make up a greater population of Eastern, and so that naturally means older men will be a bigger percentage of the overall population).
(B) Is equivalent to saying younger people are hanging out at Eastern. That's the opposite of the argument.
(C), (D) and (E) are all about actual #'s. We don't know anything about the actual #"s, only proportions (it could be that eastern lake is 100 times bigger than western lake, or vice-versa), therefore none of these answers can be proven.
Let's think about this problem in terms of singles bars (helps for me, hopefully it helps for you too) --
Here's an analogous argument:
Among those in their twenties who go to singles bars, slightly more men than women go.
Among those in their fifties who go to singles bars, a lot more men than women go.
And imagine, for the sake of this argument, that this is consistently true of bars around the world.
So...
We have two bars: Western and Eastern.
Western has a pretty small disparity between the number of men and women.
Eastern has a big disparity between the number of men and women.
That must mean that more younger singles are hanging out at Western and
More older singles are hanging out at Eastern.
In this LSAT problem, the smaller disparity for Western lake indicates a higher % of nonadult ducks (i.e. younger singles) as compared to eastern lake.
Which answer is most provable?
(A) This is equivalent to saying Western has a lower percentage of old guys than Eastern does. We know that's true (older singles make up a greater population of Eastern, and so that naturally means older men will be a bigger percentage of the overall population).
(B) Is equivalent to saying younger people are hanging out at Eastern. That's the opposite of the argument.
(C), (D) and (E) are all about actual #'s. We don't know anything about the actual #"s, only proportions (it could be that eastern lake is 100 times bigger than western lake, or vice-versa), therefore none of these answers can be proven.
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