LSAT Question Explanation
PT 105, Section 1, Question 25
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Unsalable garments are 7% of all garments produced, and all unsalable garments are recycled as scrap. However, 9% of garments are recycled as scrap. We have to resolve the discrepancy between these two numbers.
The first thing that popped into my head is that maybe there are other garments besides the unsalable ones that are recycled as scrap. Regardless of if that exact prediction is correct, we're looking for an answer that might explain why the percentage reported recycled as scrap is higher than the percentage reported as unsalable.
Answer choices
This doesn't tell us anything useful because it's not talking about unsalable garments or garments recycled as scrap.
The types of garments being recycled doesn't explain the discrepancy between the measured amounts.
This explains why some garments are considered unsalable, but it's not relevant in regards to why more garments are reported recycled as scrap than are reported unsalable.
We don't care about trends over time just the gap in the numbers from the stimulus. We have no reason to think those numbers in the stimulus are from different years.
This could explain why the numbers are different, because they are measured differently. There may be 7% of total garment count that are unsalable, but they are generally heavier than average making them account for 9% of total garment weight.