Inquires regarding RC parts only. Drill.160

[RogerD345]

Drill .160, Pg. 851, Q.7 i am pretty sure answer should be Y.

Same drill pg. pg. 853. Q. 27. I understand the answer is Y that text infers that stars are not supposed to move away but supposed to steady UNDER THE "Steady-state Universe Theory" . What i am asking is in actual LSAT, this answer choice appear in one of must be true or most supported, this answer choice wold be eliminated cuz text says this choice is wrong. correct.

[ohthatpatrick]

pg. 851 Q7

Yeah, that one's wrong. We covered this in a previous post I think (I know the error has been spotted, and I'm pretty sure it came from you because no one else has been asking questions about this book yet)

for pg. 853 Q27

I can't follow your typing. There are missing words and the meaning is getting lost along the way:

I understand the answer is Y that text infers that stars are not supposed to move away but supposed to steady UNDER THE "Steady-state Universe Theory" . What i am asking is in actual LSAT, this answer choice appear in one of must be true or most supported, this answer choice wold be eliminated cuz text says this choice is wrong. correct.

Overall, I don't like Q27. So if that's what you're getting at, I agree.

I would say Q27 is "compatible" with the passage but not "supported by" the passage.
The passage doesn't contradict it. The steady-state universe is defined as "always existed exactly as we observe it at present". If we presently observe starts moving away from Earth, then steady-state would just say "It has always been that way".

So it seems compatible with steady-state that stars could be moving away from Earth. And since the wording of Q27 is weak .... "Under this theory, X could be true" .... you can potentially support that by arguing that it is not contradicted.

But it just seems like an unlikely correct answer, since Hubble's main evidence for disproving the steady-state universe was the observation that "all the stars [that he was studying] appeared to be moving away from us" + "the farther they are, the faster they're moving away".

The 2nd part is what really makes it seem like an expanding universe. But the 1st part is so intertwined with Hubble's evidence against steady-state and for expanding that I would be surprised for LSAT to call an answer like Q27 supported.

I think the ambiguity comes from whether we should interpret Q27 to mean
"Under steady state, [some] stars could be moving away from Earth"
vs.
"under steady state, [all] stars could be moving away from Earth"

Technically, both are possible under steady-state, but the latter interpretation sounds a lot more like expanding universe.

[RogerD345]

Thank you Sir. I thought Q.7, as I was asking, I thought "I feel like i asked this Q before but wasn't entirely sure" Sorry for the extra trouble.

Now, For Q.27, I guess this would appear as the correct type answer for following type Questions:

if the question are the following type:
1. what author of the passage would agree or 2. both passage of author would can agree with?

However, Q.27 would not likely appear as a correct answer in RC Most supported .