October 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 27

As it is presented in the passage, the approach to history taken by mainstream U.S. historians of the late nineteenth...

MikeRobinson99 on May 27, 2021

How is the answer C for question #4 (game 3)?

Rule #2 of this practice says that Z is 1st then L>O. The contra positive, as explained in this video, is that O>L if Z is not 1st. Well, in question #4 Z is not first, however, the teacher places L before O and concludes that answer choice C is the right answer. Am I missing something here?

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Emil-Kunkin on August 8, 2023

I don't think there an issue with that. We know that if o is before l then z isn't first, and we know that happens if z is first. But we don't know what happens if L is before o. We don't have any rules with L before O in the sufficient condition.