October 1997 LSAT Section 3 Question 23

Candidate: The government spends $500 million more each year promoting highway safety than it spends combating cig...

Kyland on November 18, 2021

Why not D

I can understand the correct answer, but why does d not follow the same pattern. The review says that the conclusion is flipped from the question stem but does not really seem to make sense to me how that is.

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Jay-Etter on January 23, 2022

I made a quick sketch of the stimulus as:
1)spend more money/effort on x
2) y is bigger problem
C) would be better suited to shift to spend money/effort on y.

The reason D doesn't match is because premise 2 is backwards. If we mapped out D
1)spend more effort on backstroke
2) breaststroke is better (Note: in order for this to match we would want this to say breaststroke is WORSE, or is a bigger problem)
C) Should switch to breaststroke.
This argument doesn't match because we want to be switching to allocate money/attention on the more significant problem just like in the stimulus, not switching to allocate more attention to what is already our strength.