October 2011 LSAT Section 3 Question 21

Economics professor: Marty's Pizza and Checkers Pizza are the two major pizza parlors in our town. Marty's sold coupo...

Elizabeth25 on September 13 at 04:52PM

some in a

I liked A but was thrown off by the word "some" in it. This question took far longer than it should have to figure it was A. Going forward when should I be careful with the word "some' in the answer choice and should I not?

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Emil-Kunkin on September 17 at 02:38PM

I think you should generally avoid keywords. The word some shows up everywhere, and the idea even more often. It just means that a thing is the case between zero and one hundred percent of the time. It's the same as saying that X is possible. I really would only worry about quantifiers on a must be true or cannot be true or maybe parallel reasoning where the passage was quantifier heavy.

Elizabeth25 on October 18 at 01:27AM

makes sense thank you