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Complete Question Explanation
Must Be True. The correct answer choice is (E).
The stimulus contains a fact set.
Answer choice (A): There's no mention of profit in the stimulus and thus we can make no inference about Gahagan’s profitability.
Answer choice (B): The word "never" is too strong here, and there could be some wholesale buyers who come back and buy gardening implements.
Answer choice (C): We only know the majorities (percentages) of who purchases what; we do not know the actual numbers, and thus we cannot infer that there are more commercial buyers than home gardeners.
Answer choice (D): While this is possible, it is not known that it must be the case, and thus this answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (E): This is the correct answer choice. This must be the case because most of the plants are sold to landscape contractors. Why? Because LSAC intends for the "them" in that second sentence to refer to plants. It's confusing wording and I don't love how they've done that, but that then means that "Gahagan’s Greenstore sells a large volume of plants...most of them to landscape contractors." At that point it is more likely that a plant purchased there was purchased by a landscape contractor.
As an aside, if they meant "them" to refer back to "commercial buyers, " I believe they would have said something like, "The vast majority are sold wholesale to commercial buyers, most of whom are landscape contractors."
Must Be True. The correct answer choice is (E).
The stimulus contains a fact set.
Answer choice (A): There's no mention of profit in the stimulus and thus we can make no inference about Gahagan’s profitability.
Answer choice (B): The word "never" is too strong here, and there could be some wholesale buyers who come back and buy gardening implements.
Answer choice (C): We only know the majorities (percentages) of who purchases what; we do not know the actual numbers, and thus we cannot infer that there are more commercial buyers than home gardeners.
Answer choice (D): While this is possible, it is not known that it must be the case, and thus this answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (E): This is the correct answer choice. This must be the case because most of the plants are sold to landscape contractors. Why? Because LSAC intends for the "them" in that second sentence to refer to plants. It's confusing wording and I don't love how they've done that, but that then means that "Gahagan’s Greenstore sells a large volume of plants...most of them to landscape contractors." At that point it is more likely that a plant purchased there was purchased by a landscape contractor.
As an aside, if they meant "them" to refer back to "commercial buyers, " I believe they would have said something like, "The vast majority are sold wholesale to commercial buyers, most of whom are landscape contractors."
Dave Killoran
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