Free LSAT Practice Question

Question 1 of 1
ID: LSAT-LR-047
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Inference
Difficulty level: Easy

Practice Mode: Single selected Question » Back to Overview

The county's flood maps are drawn from records going back to 1950. Since 1950 the pattern of winter rainfall over the county has changed markedly, and three of the five heaviest floods in the whole record have happened in the past ten years -- two of them reaching streets the maps show as dry. So a map drawn from the full record since 1950

Which one of the following most logically completes the passage?

Aunderstates the flood risk a household in the county faces today, since it averages in decades of a rainfall pattern that no longer holds

Bought to be redrawn every year, so that each winter's rainfall enters it before the next flood season

Cshows that flooding in the county has become less common, since only two of the record's five heaviest floods fall outside the last decade

Dis more reliable than one drawn from the past ten years alone, because a record reaching back to 1950 captures rare floods that a single decade is too short to contain

Ecannot be drawn at all, since no stretch of the record is both long enough and recent enough to describe the county's rainfall

» Quit