October 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 1

By referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as "purely programmatic" (line 49) in nature, the author mo...

JoeJune85 on June 28, 2020

Question #10: Answer Choice A

Going through the question the first time, I find A to be too strong of an answer choice. Could I eliminate it based on the term "exactly"?

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Skylar on June 28, 2020

@JoeJune85, happy to help!

(A) "Rattlesnakes molt exactly once a year."

The problem with (A) is not the word "exactly." Instead, the problem is that (A) is not a required assumption. Although we need to know that molting happens in some type of consistent and measurable way, there is nothing in the passage that specifies how this way must look. In other words, there is nothing supporting the idea that rattlesnakes have to molt exactly once a year as opposed to exactly once a month for example. This is why (A) is ultimately incorrect.

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