LSAT 112 | Section 1 | Logical Reasoning: Q14

LR Question 14 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: If Slater wins the election, McGuinness will be…

QUESTION TYPE: Must be True

CONCLUSION:

1. If Slater wins, then McGuiness will be appointed.
2. Even though Yerxes is more qualified.
3. Slater will win unless the polls are completely wrong.

ANALYSIS: This shows that if the polls are right, McGuiness will be appointed even though Yerxes is more qualified.

Note that McGuiness could still be appointed, even is Slater doesn’t win. Slater winning is a sufficient condition, not a necessary condition.

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1. Who knows? Maybe McGuiness will be appointed no matter who wins.
2. Not quite. We know that McGuiness will be appointed if the polls are correct. But he might be appointed even if someone else wins the election.
3. No. Yerxes might not be appointed even if Slater loses.
4. We don’t know that both of these things are true. We only know that at least one of them is. McGuiness could be an inexperienced architect, for instance.
5. CORRECT. If the polls are right then Slater wins and he’ll appointed McGuiness, who is less qualified than Yerxes.