Q2 - All the books in

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Question Type
Procedure

Stimulus
The argumet concludes that the book Horatio wants must have been stolen or misplaced. The evidence for this is that the book is not in it's proper place on the library shelves, no one in the library is using it, it's not checked out, it's not awaiting shelving, and it's not part of a special display.

Anticipate
The argument offers an explanation for what happened to the book Horatio wants after ruling out many competing explanations for what could have happened to it.

Correct Answer
(E) correctly describes how the argument arrived at one explanation after ruling out others.

Incorrect Answers
(A) introduces a second object which is not present within the argument.

(B) may be tempting to many test takers, but this answer asserts a conclusion different than the argument. The argument is about the book that Horatio wants, while this answer suggests that the conclusion is not about the object, but about the system.

(C) asserts the wrong conclusion. No conclusion is rebutted within the argument.

(D) describes the application of a counterexample to a general rule. But the argument above does not refute a general rule and instead asserts a specific claim.

#officialexplanation

[AlexM563]

What's an example of "A deficiency in the system is isolated by arguing that the system failed to control one of the objects that it was intended to control"?

Would a viable example be "A gland in the human brain releases hormones which initiate a stress response whenever the human body reacts to extreme temperatures, in order to help regulate internal temperature. Such a stress response causes goosebumps/gooseskin in extreme cold temperatures and perspiration in extremely hot temperatures. Joe does not perspire in extremely hot temperatures, so Joe's endocrine system has an issue with internal temperature regulation. "