October 2012 LSAT Section 2 Question 22
If one subzone in each of the zones is designated for industrial use, then which one of the following is allowed?
3 Replies
Adam on March 26, 2019
I have the same questionKaren on July 10, 2020
Same question. As both above. Hasn’t been answered yet
Victoria on July 16, 2020
Hi all,Sorry for the delayed response. Hopefully I can help to clear things up a bit!
Answer choice (D) is incorrect because the stimulus tells us that "by city regulation, a total of no more than three sub zones can be designated for each of the three uses." Therefore, there can only be three R sub zones.
We know that any zone which has a sub zone that is designated for housing cannot have an I sub zone and there can be no R sub zones in Z1. Therefore, we can have a maximum of three R sub zones split between Z2 and Z3.
Option 1
Z1: I
Z2: IRRR
Z3: I
This doesn't work as we cannot have three R sub zones in a zone which has an I sub zone.
Therefore, there are two iterations of Option 2
Z1: I
Z2: IRR
Z3: IR
OR
Z1: I
Z2: IR
Z3: IRR
We can see above that it is possible that there are more R sub zones in Z2 than in Z3.
Hope this is helpful! Please let us know if you have any further questions.