September 2007 LSAT Section 1 Question 7

Inertia affects the flow of water pumped through a closed system of pipes. When the pump is first switched on, the wa...

Tyler808 on August 3, 2022

Now these questions, my mind turns into mash potatoes. What is this? A must be true or a strengthen question?

I really need some elaboration on how to differentiate these "most strongly supported" questions and how to determine if it's a must be true or a strengthen. The LSAT does that a lot and these questions seem interchangeable....

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Emil-Kunkin on August 5, 2022

Hi Tyler808,

This is a must be true... of a sort. These questions that ask us "most strongly supported" or "most support" are what I like to call "soft" must be trues. That is, they allow for a little more room for doubt than a more standard must be true question would, but they are still asking us what we can say with 99.9% certainty is true. In practice, I would treat them exactly the same as a more conventional must be true.