medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A weather forecasting service upgraded its technology to the most advanced satellite system available. While its forecasts for temperature became more accurate, more people were caught in the rain without umbrellas than before the upgrade.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the paradox?
- Umbrellas come in many different sizes these days, ranging from small collapsible folding models to large oversized golf umbrellas.
- Satellites orbiting the Earth at high altitude continuously provide raw atmospheric data to many different meteorological organizations.
- Many busy daily commuters check the weather forecast on their smartphones each morning before finally leaving their own homes for work.
- The new system was tuned almost entirely to temperature and forecast rainfall far less accurately than the equipment it replaced.
- The new satellite system was so advanced that it could pinpoint the surface temperature of any single location to a tenth of a degree.
Sign up free to see the explanation and track your rank →
More LSAT Logical Reasoning practice
- 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?
- Which one of the following can be properly inferred from these premises?
- Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the authors' conclusion?
- Which one of the following can be validly inferred from the two conditionals above?
- 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