June 2010 LSAT Section 5 Question 24

Which one of the following is given by the passage as a reason for the difficulty a lawyer would have in determining ...

Alexandria-Melendez on June 16, 2021

For Question 5

How is B the correct answer choice? It does take more time for the sterilization of nylon instruments than it does to manufacture them. C goes against the passage, because it was stated that 50 instruments each were sterilized. Therefore it is not supported in the passage that more nylon instruments were sterilized and it cannot be true.

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Jessy on July 22, 2021

I am as confused as you are Alexandria as to why the answer is not C.

Akishmish98 on October 12, 2021

it doesn't state that 50 were used it states that per 50 sterilizations, a certain amount of energy is used. they could have and probably did use more than 50 in their study. B is the correct answer choice because it takes 3.4 times the energy to sterilize 50 than it does to make one new set. to only sterilize one it takes 34/50 times the amount of energy and so long as that is smaller than 1x answer B cannot be true.

Eaten on October 22, 2021

I chose C for this same reason! I thought the passage was stating that 50 were sterilized each- in which C would contradict that. Crazy how one word completely changes it all