September 2019 LSAT Section 3 Question 3

Based on the passage, the relationship of Great Zimbabwe's cattle economy to the size of Great Zimbabwe's population ...

shafieiava on May 24, 2020

Approach?

Can someone please explain their approach to this question and what line numbers they used to help them identify the correct answer? Thanks in advance.

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lsatprepper1 on June 9, 2020

I also am confused by this question.

bcross on June 18, 2020

I have the same question

Emil-Kunkin on September 29, 2022

I would start this by understanding the relationship between the cattle economy and the large population. The second paragraph, and in particular lines 30-35, explain this for us. The large population was only possible thanks to the cattle economy, so, in other words the cattle economy was what enabled the large population to exist.

In the answer choices, we are looking for something that enables something else to exist under circumstances in which it normally would not be able to exist.

This is a good match for B. Irrigation enables a farm to exist in a desert where it normally would not be able to exist.