PT49, S2, Q16 Most successful entrepreneurs work at

[rob.schimmel]

I understand why D is correct, however, I'm having trouble explaining why A is wrong. 18 hrs a day of work = no time for leisure activities but why is A true since it reverses the stated logic but does not negate it? Oh, I think I may have realized the answer...does it have something to do with "could be true"? I guess A could be true but there's no way that D could be true.

[noah]

Preptest 49 June 2006 LSAT answers

16. (D)
Question type: Inference
This argument is worth breaking down into some simple statements, beginning with the definitive ones: If 18+ hrs. wrk. → No Leisure. Its contrapositive: If Leisure time → < 18 hrs. wrk. The first statement only tells us that most successful entrepreneurs fall into the 18+ category (and are therefore without leisure time). The final statement explains that all happy entrepreneurs have leisure time (and therefore work less than 18 hours), and we can draw two logical statements from this: 1) If happy e. → Lesiure time (→ < 18 hrs. wrk), and 2) If No Leisure → Not Happy. We can attach this last statement to the first one we drew to form a logical chain: 18+ hrs. wrk. → No leisure → Not Happy. The correct answer will be something that is false according to these above statements. Answer (D) is false according to the last logic chain we formed.

All the other answers are either supported by the statements (B) or, more often are simply not proven false by them, as in (A), (C) and (E).

I know you're going to work with Mike a bit in study hall on this, so tell me if you have any further questions on this after that.

[nneamakaeze]

could you explain how answer choce C is true?

[noah]

could you explain how answer choce C is true?

I can't. . . Because the answer is (D)

Perhaps you're thinking of a different problem.

[noah]

My colleague just pointed out that perhaps you got fooled by the "EXCEPT" in the question. That means that four of the answer choices could be true, and one cannot. So the correct answer is one that cannot be true. If you did get fooled by that, you may want to try underlining the except and/or writing out the type of answer you're looking for.

Thanks for posting.