Jablonski owns a car dealership. She looked at the accident statistics

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Jablonski owns a car dealership. She looked at the accident statistics and was disturbed. She wanted to help the community so as to encourage better driving and reduce the number of accidents. For this she donated cars to driver education programs at area schools for over five years. Also some people of the community have purchased cars from her dealership.

Which one of the following propositions is best illustrated by the passage?

A. The only way to reduce traffic accidents is through driver education programs.

B. Altruistic actions sometimes have positive consequences for those who perform them.

C. Young drivers are the group most likely to benefit from driver education programs.

D. It is usually in one's best interest to perform actions that benefit others.

E. An action must have broad community support if it is to be successful.

abelka · Answer

A. The only way to reduce traffic accidents is through driver education programs. - too extreme, not supported by the argument

B. Altruistic actions sometimes have positive consequences for those who perform them. -  correct

C. Young drivers are the group most likely to benefit from driver education programs.

D. It is usually in one's best interest to perform actions that benefit others. - so what?

E. An action must have broad community support if it is to be successful. - irrelevant

ShreyaSharma02 · Answer

Answer choice (A): This is not supported by the stimulus. Not only do we not know that driver education is the only way to reduce traffic accidents, we don't know if it has that effect at all! The stimulus never said that Jablonski's plan would actually help, but only that she wanted to help and felt that this was one way to do so. We cannot prove that driver education helps at all, and we definitely cannot prove that nothing else would help.

Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice.  This answer matches the above prephrase nicely. We know that altruistic actions, like Jablonski's, sometimes have positive consequences for the person who did them, because "sometimes" means "at least once", and at least this one time that happened. Jablonski acted altruistically (for the benefit of another rather than for oneself) and she ended up benefiting (she sold some cars).

Answer choice (C): This is unsupported by the stimulus. We have no information about who tends to benefit from driver education, or if anyone in fact does benefit. This brings in new information and must be rejected.

Answer choice {D): We have no information in the stimulus about what "usually" happens. It happened one time, and that's all we know about. We don't even know if this worked out to Jablonski's overall best interests - maybe she donated 10 cars and sold just 2, taking a loss to the tune of 8 cars?

Answer choice (E): We don't know if Jablonski's action was successful, we don't know how broad the support was for it, and we don't know about any similar actions, just this one. Maybe some actions are successful with narrow support, or even none?

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IanStewart · Answer

I read the stem here, which is barely in English, and became confused seeing the "Official LSAT" tag -- I would be shocked to see language like this on an official LSAT. I'd also be shocked to see logic like this in an official LSAT question (none of the answers is good at all here, as the question is written). So I looked up the original official version of the problem, and it barely resembles the question I quoted above. The original is here (Q6 on pg 15) https://www.lsac.org/sites/default/file ... ptjune.pdf Most importantly, in the original the last sentence of the stem says "Some members of the community have shown their support for this action by purchasing cars from Jablonski's dealership", so in the original, we know for a fact that the car sales have something to do with Jablonski's altruistic actions, and B is a logically correct answer. In the version originally posted in this thread, that I've quoted above, there is no connection at all between the car sales and Jablonski's altruism, and answer B doesn't make any sense (nor does any other answer).

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Jablonski owns a car dealership. She looked at the accident statistics and was disturbed. She wanted to help the community so as to encourage better driving and reduce the number of accidents. For this she donated cars to driver education programs at area schools for over five years. Also some people of the community have purchased cars from her dealership.

Which one of the following propositions is best illustrated by the passage?

A. The only way to reduce traffic accidents is through driver education programs. --- The ONLY way? A bit strong...

B. Altruistic actions sometimes have positive consequences for those who perform them. --- Not bad...

C. Young drivers are the group most likely to benefit from driver education programs. --- A bit specific without supporting evidence

D. It is usually in one's best interest to perform actions that benefit others. --- BEST interest is a little off perhaps. In the passage it also says she did it for the community.

E. An action must have broad community support if it is to be successful --- MUST?

(B). Not bad.

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