Q10 - It is a principle of economics that

[hyewonkim89]

I got this question right because I could eliminate all the wrong answers, but I'm having a hard time understanding the right answer.

Answer D, the right answer, is the contrapositive of the principle in the passage.

What I don't understand is the contrapositive relationship between "consumer confidence balanced with a small amount of consumer skepticism" and "exclusively confidence."

Please help!

[sumukh09]

Stim says:

Economic Growth ---> Consumer Confidence balanced with small amount of consumer skepticism

D gives you the contrapositive because a consumers attitude being "exclusively" confident implies it is not balanced with anything. Exclusively confident means that the consumers are confident and nothing else, meaning they can't balance their confidence with anything like skepticism since they are only confident with zero amount of skepticism.

[WaltGrace1983]

It looks like the LSAT got fancy and negated (consumer confidence balanced with a small amount of consumer skepticism) by saying EXCLUSIVELY...aka, NOT balanced. Tricky.

Here is the conditional: (Growth --> Balanced)

(A) Balanced --> Growth. Mistaken necessary/sufficient.

(B) Prevailing attitude NOT skepticism --> growth. Wrong for two reasons: (1) the sufficient condition doesn't match (Balanced); (2) we must conclude ~(growth) if we are going to contrapose.

(C) ~Balanced --> Growth. Should be ~Growth.

(E) Balanced --> Growth. False negation of both conditions.