#15 - Goodbody, Inc., is in the process of finding tenants

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

Resolve the Paradox. The correct answer choice is (A)

The Stimulus indicates that this is a Resolve the Paradox question type and there is no conclusion here.

• Premise 1: Goodbody Inc is looking for tenants for its new office space in a formerly derelict property outside the financial center of the city.
  
  Premise 2: The coming recession will not hurt Goodbody in its quest but will in fact help it.

Do not fight the two positions! What will make both of these statements true? Office space outside the financial center may lease for cheaper rates than similar space inside the financial center. Another option is that tenants may seek out the new property in an effort to cut costs if Goodbody offers the office space at the right price.

Again, the key to solving these types of problems is to make both premises come true. If a proposed resolution hurts one of the premises while helping the other, it does not resolve the paradox and should be eliminated.

Answer Choice (A): This is the correct answer choice. It follows one of the pre-formed answers discussed above. Cheaper rents may be available outside the financial center and the recession will force businesses to try and cut costs. This helps Goodbody Inc and it resolves our paradox.

Answer Choice (B): This is a “so what?” answer. So what if there is public transportation linking the financial center? How does it help Goodbody Inc obtain tenants in a recession? It could help with the first premise, but not with the second. Since it does not help with both premises, it must be eliminated.

Answer Choice (C): The fact that the property is located in an area that became derelict because of a previous recession does not explain how the coming recession will help Goodbody Inc obtain tenants.

Answer Choice (D): This Answer Choice concerns the other Goodbody properties in the financial district not the new one, and therefore, it does not indicate how the new property at Parrot Quay will get tenants because of the coming recession.

Answer Choice (E): This answer is attractive initially because it does give a reason why the coming recession may not affect Parrot Quay’s ability to get tenants. But it does not address how the coming recession will actually help the Parrot Quay project get tenants, and because it does not address this, it must be eliminated.

[Lsat180Please]

Hi! I got to A because it was the only answer that kind of worked but I was a little confused as to why we could assume that Goodbody Inc. had lower rents. Yes I kind of prephased something about money but it never says in the stimulus that Goodbody Inc. has lower rent or is cheaper than the city center. I might be in the MBT mindset where you can never assume anything but with A my doubt was it helps businesses with lower rent but we do not know anything about Goodbody's rent/ cost so how do we know that they are helped.

[Malila Robinson]

Hi Lsat180Please,
This is a Resolve the Paradox question which is part of the second family (help). That means that the answer choices are assumed to be true and you are looking for the truth in one of the answer choices that helps the argument. So you can bring in outside information (things that were not mentioned in the argument) and it will still be correct if it helps the argument because that new info is assumed to be true.

A Must Be True question is in the first family (prove). In MBT questions the argument is assumed to be true, so the correct answer choice has to come from/be proven by the truth in the argument.

Hope that helps.
-Malila