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The cafeteria at Acme Company can offer only four main dishes at lunchtime, and the same four choices have been offered for years. Recently mushroom casserole was offered in place of one of the other main dishes for two days, during which more people chose mushroom casserole than any other main dish. Clearly, if the cafeteria wants to please its customers, mushroom casserole should replace one of the regular dishes as a permanent part of the menu.
The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it fails to consider
(A) the proportion of Acme Company employees who regularly eat lunch in the company cafeteria
(B) whether any of the ingredients used in the cafeteria’s recipe for mushroom casserole are included in any of the regular main dishes
(C) a desire for variety as a reason for people’s choice of mushroom casserole during the days it was offered
(D) what foods other than main dishes are regularly offered at lunchtime by the cafeteria
(E) whether other meals besides lunch are served in the Acme Company cafeteria
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The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it fails to consider
(A) the proportion of Acme Company employees who regularly eat lunch in the company cafeteria
(B) whether any of the ingredients used in the cafeteria’s recipe for mushroom casserole are included in any of the regular main dishes
(C) a desire for variety as a reason for people’s choice of mushroom casserole during the days it was offered
(D) what foods other than main dishes are regularly offered at lunchtime by the cafeteria
(E) whether other meals besides lunch are served in the Acme Company cafeteria
Source: LSAT
16 Apr 2021, 00:00
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
(A) No. This is irrelevant.
(B) No. This is irrelevant.
(C) Yes. Since the same four dishes have been offered for years, any new item would probably become the most popular—at least for a while.
(D) No. This is irrelevant.
(E) No. This is irrelevant.
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21 May 2018, 04:36
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The answer is C.
This question can be easily solved using the LOGICAL approach, by analysing the passage.
The claim is that since many people ate the mushroom casserole, it must be a very popular dish. But, as always with claims of causation, in order to evaluate the claim we need to evaluate likely alternative explanations for the phenomenon described: since these were the first two days when the dish was offered, perhaps people were just curious and excited about the variety? (C) uses tis reasoning precisely to build a critique.
This question can be easily solved using the LOGICAL approach, by analysing the passage.
The claim is that since many people ate the mushroom casserole, it must be a very popular dish. But, as always with claims of causation, in order to evaluate the claim we need to evaluate likely alternative explanations for the phenomenon described: since these were the first two days when the dish was offered, perhaps people were just curious and excited about the variety? (C) uses tis reasoning precisely to build a critique.
