Q17 - Curator: Our museum displays only

[indyyork]

Can anyone help me understand the gap in this question please.

I can see that the core is "Prints of all the latter works are available in the museum store"

Can you help me understand the part that does "which are [either] on loan from private collectors [or] in the museum's permanent collection"

but not both hah!

[chike_eze]

Can anyone help me understand the gap in this question please.
I can see that the core is "Prints of all the latter works are available in the museum store"

Can you help me understand the part that does "which are [either] on loan from private collectors [or] in the museum's permanent collection"
but not both hah!

I'm curious about the explanation to this answer as well. For me, the prompt read more like an "inference question" than a "flaw question"... i.e., if this is true, which one must be true?
(I say this because it was included in Identify the flaw, Practice 1)

But even with that mindset, I still do not understand how (C) can be gleaned from the prompt. Please break it down to its indivisible elements-- Thanks.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Oh, I love this one! Thanks for bringing it back up.

Okay, so this one rests on some conditional/quantified relationships.

1. Everything on display is either on loan or part of the permanent collection.

2. If something is part of the permanent collection, it's available in the museum store.

3. Some things available in the museum store are not part of the permanent collection.

Let's combine the first and second statement to arrive at answer choice (C). Obviously, I wouldn't be able to just know that on the test, so I'd have to work down from answer choice (A) until I found one that I could prove.

If a work is on display in the museum and not on loan from a private collector, from the first statement we could infer that the work was part of the permanent collection. If we now continue with the second statement, we could additionally infer that it would be available in the museum store. So every work on display but not on on loan from a private collector would be available in the museum store - answer choice (C).

Let's take a look at the incorrect answers.

(A) is not necessarily true. There could be some prints in the museum store that might not even be on display in the museum.
(B)) is not necessarily true. There could be some prints in the museum store that might not even be on display in the museum, and so could be from another century.
(D) is unsupported. Remember, there were no limitations put on what the museum stor could sell other than it hat to carry prints of every work that was part of the permanent collection. But it could sell prints of any other work it wished as well.
(E) is unsupported. This answer choice failed to consider that it could be on loan to the museum from a private collector.

Let me know if you still have questions on this one!

[chike_eze]

2. If something is part of the permanent collection, it's available in the museum store.

O my goodness!! Like a smack in the face, Like a punch in the guts, I see my blunder now... it hinges on my reading the word "latter" as "later"; therefore, I misinterpreted latter works as later works. Indeed, I read "Greater than 20th century works" instead of "the museum's permanent collection". Incredible.

1. If work is on display, then it is a 20th century work either from private collectors or from the [museum's permanent collection]

2. Prints of All of the latter works [permanent collection] are available in the museum store

3. Some prints not included in the permanent section are also available in the store (these prints could be on loan from private collectors or some other source)

(C) makes sense now.

[kylem151]

Hello,

I'm confused why answer "C" must to be true. I can only find evidence that it could be true.

The correct answer reads: "(a)There are prints in the museum store of every work that is displayed in the museum and (b) not on loan from a private collector."

So I have (a) and (b) problems:

1) The store sells prints of "every work that is displayed" meaning it sells all the permanent collection and privately loaned works? Where is the evidence in the stimulus to support all privately loaned works being sold in the store?
-Sentence 2 says all permanent works are sold.
-Sentence 3 says "some" works [other than those in the permanent collection] are sold. This could mean those privately owned, or those not on display, or both. But, I do not see how "some" here implies, as seen in answer C, that the store does sell "every work that is displayed [both permanent and on loan]". Why can't only a few, or half, or most of those on private loan be sold in the store?

What am I missing?

2) Why does the store have to sell works not on display?

Where is the evidence that Nighthawks is an example of a non-privately loaned work (and thus not on display)?

Thanks in advance.

Edited for clarity.