October 1997 LSAT Section 3 Question 6

A purse containing 32 ancient gold coins that had been minted in Morocco was discovered in the ruins of an ancient Jo...

francolby on July 11 at 02:01AM

dont understand

i dont understand the answer explanation. where does it say that one is unlikely to happen and one is more likely happen?

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Emil-Kunkin on July 11 at 09:40PM

It doesn't explicitly say this but the passage strongly implies that the coins are more likely to have come from a pilgrim than from a trader. We are told that there are two options, and that the coins are uniform. We are then told that if the coins belonged to a merchant, the coins would likely have been more diverse.

From this we can infer that it's unlikely that they belonged to a merchant, and thus, it is likely they belonged to a pilgrim.