PrepTest 154, Section 1, Question 23
Inventor: All highly successful entrepreneurs have as their(56 more words not shown)
If the inventor's statements are(10 more words not shown)
- AMost people do(22 more words not shown)
- BAll people who(17 more words not shown)
- CThe main desire(18 more words not shown)
- DGenerally, highly successful(25 more words not shown)
- EAll people whose(15 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Those are sweeping claims about entrepreneurs. Maybe someone's main goal is simply to make money. But this question tells us to accept the inventor's statements, so we're following their consequences rather than trying to disprove them.
Keep the strongest wording straight. Highly successful entrepreneurs don't merely solve some problems; they implement a solution whenever they see one. The passage says they are unique in that respect. Everyone else sometimes lacks the motivation to act because of leisure time or job security. That doesn't mean other people never solve a problem.
We also know the highly successful entrepreneurs' main desire: leaving a mark on the world. Put the two statements together. If a person always implements the solutions they see, that person belongs to the unique group of highly successful entrepreneurs. And everyone in that group has leaving a mark as their main desire.
What we’re looking for
For the must-be-true question, that connection gives us a useful prediction: the people who always act on their solutions mainly want to leave a mark. The passage's broad descriptions may not match our view of the real world, but they do establish this result within the question.
Working the answers
- A
We aren't told how many people are highly successful entrepreneurs. The passage doesn't give us a basis for a claim about most people. It also doesn't say the other people have no wish to leave a mark. They might want that while also valuing leisure or security too much to act on every solution. A adds both a population claim and an explanation of desires we weren't given.
- B
People who invariably implement solutions are the highly successful entrepreneurs in this passage. The leisure-or-security interest that prevents consistent action is attributed to the other people. We don't know whether the entrepreneurs have some interest in those things or none. B may be possible, but it isn't established.
- CCorrect
Anyone who implements a solution whenever they detect one is in the group uniquely described as doing that: highly successful entrepreneurs. The first sentence tells us that every member of that group mainly wants to leave a mark on the world. C connects those two facts without adding a new claim.
- D
This concerns the ability to see solutions. The passage's contrast concerns whether people implement the solutions they see. An entrepreneur could miss some solutions for any number of reasons while still acting on every solution they do notice. We don't know how leisure or security affects their ability to detect problems' solutions.
- E
This changes both the desire and the outcome. The given main desire is to leave a mark, not necessarily to implement solutions for its own sake. And wanting to leave a mark doesn't establish that someone actually does. E claims an accomplished result that the inventor's statements about desires and behavior don't guarantee.
More Must Be True questions
Learn the LSAT our way
Our platform drills Must Be True questions at your level and adjusts as you improve.