October 2002 PT, Section 3 (LR), question #16

[brittany1990]

Hi!

Initially when I did this section I got this question wrong. When I went back to review my answers, I realized that I overlooked the conditional indicator "People who." I tried diagramming out the stimulus, but I'm not sure if it is right.

P: Don't believe that others distrust confident in own abilities
P: Confident in own abilities view difficult task as a challenge
C: Trust others view difficult task as a challenge

I realized there were logical leaps between "people who do not believe that others distrust them" and "people who tend to trust others" so I picked answer C.

Please let me know if my thought process is correct! Thanks!

[Adam Tyson]

Your thought process, and your resulting diagram, are absolutely spot on! Well done!

Classic setup here - a conditional chain, with a conclusion that introduces a new sufficient condition and links it to a known necessary condition. To justify it, all you need to do is show that the new sufficient condition is sufficient for one of the original sufficient conditions, and then you can "leap over" that old sufficient condition to get to the necessary condition.

Perfectly done!

Keep up the good work.

Adam M. Tyson
PowerScore LSAT Instructor