PrepTest 139, Section 3, Question 7
The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and(426 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(10 more words not shown)
- AThe advance payment(15 more words not shown)
- BHard-surfaced roads are(15 more words not shown)
- CA typical population(15 more words not shown)
- DConsumers prefer hard-surfaced(15 more words not shown)
- EMost roads with(13 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The final paragraph explicitly reverses the traditional travel pattern. In the traditional arrangement, produce moves from farm to market. In Whatley's version, city customers travel to the farm to get it themselves. Predict an answer about that original direction of transport.
What we’re looking for
The population and road requirements also appear here, but neither gives us a guarantee of membership or a history of why roads were built.
Working the answers
- A
Paying in advance doesn't guarantee that every desired crop will be available. The discussion of diversifying crops recognizes that crop failure remains possible.
- BCorrect
The traditional farm-to-market use is transporting farmers' produce toward city consumers. Calling Whatley's arrangement the reverse makes sense because those consumers would instead travel out to the farm. This inference explains the contrast actually made.
- C
A population of fifty thousand doesn't establish enough members to support fifty farms. The thousand-member estimate describes what one twenty-five-acre farm needs; it doesn't show how many residents would sign up or how many farms their demand would sustain. A potential population isn't a committed customer base.
- D
Vehicle wear isn't given as the reason customers prefer hard-surfaced roads. Don't substitute a plausible explanation for an established one.
- E
The discussion tells us about a traditional use of roads, not the primary reason most roads were originally paved. Use and original construction purpose are different claims.
More Detail questions
Learn the LSAT our way
Our platform drills Detail questions at your level and adjusts as you improve.