Exam LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning topic 1 question 319 discussion

Actual exam question from Test Prep's LSAT Section 1 Logical Reasoning

Question #: 319
Topic #: 1

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Cigarette companies claim that manufacturing both low-and high-nicotine cigarettes allows smokers to choose how much nicotine they want. However, a recent study has shown that the levels of nicotine found in the blood of smokers who smoke one pack of cigarettes per day are identical at the end of a day's worth of smoking, whatever the level of nicotine in the cigarettes they smoke.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the finding of the nicotine study?

A. Blood cannot absorb more nicotine per day than that found in the smoke from a package of the lowest-nicotine cigarettes available.
B. Smokers of the lowest-nicotine cigarettes available generally smoke more cigarettes per day than smokers of high-nicotine cigarettes.
C. Most nicotine is absorbed into the blood of a smoker even if it is delivered in smaller quantities.
D. The level of tarin cigarettes is higher in lownicotine cigarettes than it is in some high-nicotine cigarettes.
E. When taking in nicotine by smoking cigarettes is discontinued, the level of nicotine in the blood decreases steadily.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
Heres a popular LSAT topic: cigarettes. And we know from the stem that were looking for a choice that helps make astudys finding more understandable.
"Explain" questions are a subset of Paradox questions, and we shouldn’t be surprised if the finding is unusual or puzzling. And so it is, as the ever-helpful Contrast
Keyword "However" suggests. By producing both low- and high-nicotine cigarettes, the cigarette companies think they’re offering smokers a choice as to how much nicotine they wish to consume. But the study found equal levels of nicotine in the blood of smokers who smoke one pack a day, no matter what the level of nicotine in their cigarettes. This is certainly hard to understand, but perhaps you picked up on the shift between nicotine consumed and nicotine found in the blood perhaps theres something about the latter that evens things out no matter how much nicotine is initially imbibed. Thats worth keeping in mind as we hit the choices, and look

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