Logical Reasoning · Most Strongly Supported

PrepTest 127 · Section 3 · Question 2

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Most Strongly Supported

The one idea it tests

Stay inside the lunchbox: pick the answer the statements back up, even if it is modest.

The basic logic

The speaker gives a few facts, including a direct comparison of risk between two options. Combine them and pick the claim that follows closely, avoiding predictions that go further than the facts.

Tiny words that decide it

“higher”
“may”
“than”

Playground logic

Nadia says the lemonade stand might drain money from the club's other projects, and that lemonade is riskier than selling bookmarks. Put the riskier-than fact in the Lunchbox: the safest thing we can say is that lemonade has a bigger chance of a money loss than bookmarks.

Step 2 · The kid story

Lemonade or Bookmarks?

The Art Club already sells painted rocks, and that has worked great for three years. Now Owen wants to open a lemonade stand. Nadia raised her hand at the meeting. "Our rock project works. A lemonade stand could eat up money the rock project needs. And lemonade sales go up and down like a yo-yo. One cloudy week and nobody buys. That is way riskier than selling bookmarks, which we also talked about." Owen pouted. "So you are saying lemonade will lose money?" Lulu checked her clipboard. "She did not say that. She said 'could' and 'riskier'." Priya nodded. "So all we really know is this: compared with bookmarks, lemonade has a bigger chance of going badly." Owen sighed. "Fine. But I still want a lemonade." Priya handed him her juice box.

Step 3 · Try the model question

Nadia: The club's rock-painting sales have succeeded for years. A lemonade stand might pull money away from that project. Also, lemonade sales swing wildly, making a lemonade stand riskier than selling bookmarks, another project the club has considered.

If Nadia is right, which choice do her words back up most?

Step 4 · The courtroom tale

The Two Ponds

A town council was choosing between building a skating pond and a fishing pond. The engineer testified. "Your Honor, the old swimming pool has been a success for decades. A new pond might draw repair money from it. And skating ponds crack and melt unpredictably. They carry more risk than fishing ponds." The opposing lawyer jumped up. "So the skating pond will certainly fail?" Mr. Whitfield tugged his suspenders. "Objection. The witness never said 'certainly'. She said 'might' and 'more risk'." The judge agreed. "What the testimony supports is narrow: the skating pond is likelier to go badly than the fishing pond. Nothing more." The opposing lawyer sat, a little deflated.

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 127, Section 3, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Gather each fact the speaker gives and mark how strong its words are ('may', 'higher', 'than'). Look especially for any direct comparison. Then test each answer: does it stay inside what the facts say, or does it predict, demand or add a new claim? Prefer the answer that restates a comparison in slightly different form over answers that turn 'may' into 'will'.