hard · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Either the city must raise property taxes, or it must close the public library. Since closing the library would be devastating to the community, the city must raise property taxes.
Which one of the following exhibits reasoning most similar to the flawed reasoning above?
- Either the factory upgrades its filtration system, or it reduces output. Since reducing output would ruin the workforce, it must upgrade filtration.
- Either the factory must upgrade its filtration system, or it must reduce production output. If it fails to do either, it will face steep regulatory fines.
- The factory must either upgrade its filtration system or reduce production output; it has now chosen to upgrade, so it will not need to reduce its output at all.
- The factory has upgraded its filtration system, and doing so was costly, so the factory must also be planning to reduce production output.
- The factory must upgrade its filtration system, reduce production output, and pay a fine, since all three measures are required by the new regulation.
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More LSAT Logical Reasoning practice
- Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
- Which one of the following can be properly inferred from these statements?
- The question type just described is best identified as which one of the following?
- The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument
- The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument
- Which one of the following most accurately describes the relationship the statement establ
- Which one of the following can be validly inferred from the two conditionals above?
- Which one of the following must be true given the statement above?