Daily Drills 3 - Section 3 - Question 4

Supply the missing premise that makes the conclusion follow logically:P: X–some–YP: ?C: Z–some–Y

meaganj101 August 6, 2019

What type of question is this?

What section would this be on and how would you classify this question?

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Ravi August 9, 2019

@meaganj101,

This would be in logical reasoning, and I would classify this as a
'quantifier' question. However, you won't ever see a question exactly
like this on the LSAT. This question was made for drilling. However,
the underlying fundamentals of this question will be on the LSAT, but
they'll likely use terms instead of letters.

These drills are extremely important to get you used to understanding
how to diagram quantifiers. On the LSAT, you will have some questions
where you need to digram them since there are quantifiers in the
stimulus.

For this question, we have

P: X - some - Y
P:
C: Z - some - Y

What can we add to conclude Z - some - Y?

We need to connect X and Z

X - >Z (not Z - >not X)
X - some - Y

With this, we could conclude Z - some - Y

Y - some - X - >Z

Y - some - Z (Z - some - Y)

Does this make sense? Let us know if you have any questions!