November 2019 LSAT Section 2 Question 1

CEO: While we only have the sales reports for the first 9 months of this year, I feel confident in concluding that th...

ElleSat on February 9 at 10:59PM

Doesn't A weaken?

If a company has its highest sales period during the last three months, then the company will rely proportionately on those sales. Arguably, those sales are the most important given their size, and not having any indicator of what those sales would be like would weaken his confidence in his argument. If the sales are unusually bad during those three months, it could ruin the year. So I picked the answer based off of advertising, as a correlation of their success and their new approach could indicate a driving factor that can be continued for following months.

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Emil-Kunkin on February 11 at 10:55PM

If the last quarter is where most revenue comes from (or if not most, a disproportionate amount), then they already are well above their monthly average for the first nine months. Let's say they typically sell 25 a month in the first three quarters and then 45 in q4, giving them an average of 30 a month.

This means that their average for the first quarters was not only 5 more than in the past, as the passage suggests- but 10 more! This makes it even more likely that they will have a good year. Even if revenues from q4 look disappointing, A means that they have built up even more of a cushion than the passage suggests on its own.