It is difficult to grow cacti in a humid climate. It is difficult to raise orange trees in a cold climate. In most pa...
ShirnelApril 1, 2020
Quantifier Statements with either/or/and/compound
We didn't learn this in the video and this confused me a little when attempting this question. Can you give another example of this using "either/or statements" and "compound statement"
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Thanks for the question! Let’s walk through this question first. We know that humid climates are bad for cacti and cold climates are bad for oranges. We’re also told that in most parts of a country, one of these two are easy to grow, and then we’re asked for a statement that must be false.
Answer choice (A) tells us that half of the country is humid and cold. If this is true, then that half of the country is hostile to both oranges and cacti. But if that’s the case, then it can’t be true that it’s easy to grow cacti or oranges in most parts of the country, since most (as defined on the LSAT) is more than half. This, however, contradicts the last statement in the passage, and so we know it must be wrong.
Here’s another example: you have a plate of chicken nuggets. Most of these chicken nuggets are going to be dipped in ketchup or mustard, meaning that at least 6 are going to be dipped in one of the two. Now, if we know that ketchup is red and mustard is yellow, then we know it can’t be the case that half of the chicken nuggets have neither red nor yellow on them. Because we know that at least 6 of the chicken nuggets are dipped in one of the two. This is a pretty frivolous example, but somewhat follows the logic of the stimulus here.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any further questions that you might have.
