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A well-known sports figure found that combining publicity [#permalink] New post 19 Jun 2009, 10:40
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A well-known sports figure found that combining publicity tours with playing tours led to problems, so she stopped combining the two. She no longer allows bookstore appearances and playing in competition to occur in the same city within the same trip. This week she is traveling to London to play in a major competition, so during her stay in London she will not be making any publicity appearances at any bookstore in London.
Which one of the following most closely parallels the reasoning used in the passage?
(A) Wherever there is an Acme Bugkiller, many wasps are killed. The Z family garden has an Acme Bugkiller, so any wasps remaining in the garden will soon be killed.
(B) The only times that the hospital’s emergency room staff attends to relatively less serious emergencies are times when there is no critical emergency to attend to. On Monday night the emergency room staff attended to a series of fairly minor emergencies, so there must not have been any critical emergencies to take care of at the time.
(C) Tomato plants require hot summers to thrive. Farms in the cool summers of country Y probably do not have thriving tomato plants.
(D) Higher grades lead to better job opportunities, and studying leads to higher grades. Therefore, studying will lead to better job opportunities.
(E) Butter knives are not sharp. Q was not murdered with a sharp blade, so suspect X’s butter knife may have been the murder weapon.
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Re: sports figure [#permalink] New post 19 Jun 2009, 14:57
Jeff Sackmann says

Also, the LSAT has a few more question types that explicitly test your ability to dissect an argument. You might take the GMAT five times without ever seeing a Parallel Reasoning question, but on the LSAT, those are considerably more common.

http://www.gmathacks.com/study-tips/lsat-vs-gmat.html

I agree but I guess the rainy day is always a possibility

X happens Y does not happen

X is happening so Y will not happen

B is very close, but the conclusion is about the past event, where as in the original argument, it is about a future event.
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Re: sports figure [#permalink] New post 19 Jun 2009, 19:24
IMO B

This reasoning is as: when A appears, B does not appear and A & B are of the same type, not of different type of entities

A well-known sports figure found that combining publicity tours with playing tours led to problems, so she stopped combining the two. She no longer allows bookstore appearances and playing in competition to occur in the same city within the same trip. This week she is traveling to London to play in a major competition, so during her stay in London she will not be making any publicity appearances at any bookstore in London.
Which one of the following most closely parallels the reasoning used in the passage?
(A) Wherever there is an Acme Bugkiller, many wasps are killed. The Z family garden has an Acme Bugkiller, so any wasps remaining in the garden will soon be killed --> Acme Bugkiller and wasps are not the same entities
(B) The only times that the hospital’s emergency room staff attends to relatively less serious emergencies are times when there is no critical emergency to attend to. On Monday night the emergency room staff attended to a series of fairly minor emergencies, so there must not have been any critical emergencies to take care of at the time --> the best: less serious emergencies and critical emergencies are the same. They are 2 kinds of emergencies. And: when less serious emergencies cases are handled, critical emergencies cases are not
(C) Tomato plants require hot summers to thrive. Farms in the cool summers of country Y probably do not have thriving tomato plants -->summer and tomato are not the same
(D) Higher grades lead to better job opportunities, and studying leads to higher grades. Therefore, studying will lead to better job opportunities -->different reasoning with the passage's reasoning
(E) Butter knives are not sharp. Q was not murdered with a sharp blade, so suspect X’s butter knife may have been the murder weapon -->different reasoning
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Re: sports figure [#permalink] New post 20 Jun 2009, 04:43
IMO B

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