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...

Esmi on December 6, 2021

Linear Games

#3. I am confused as to why C was not the right answer being that it must be true that Mushrooms must be 3rd and lentils are 6th regardless if any food is added after zucchini. Please help

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Emil-Kunkin on January 17, 2022

Hi @esmi, I think you may have interpreted the rule about lentils and mushrooms a bit differently than it was set up. The rule tells us that IF M3, then L6. This is not universal-it is not saying that m is always 3 and l is always 6, it is simply saying that in the case that M is 3 then we know that L is 6. The setup of question 3 tells us that L is 6, but this does not guarantee that M is three. That would just be reversing the rule that if M3 then L6, which we are not allowed to do. You can find more about this in the sufficient and necessary lesson as well.