Q4 - Monroe: Our organization's project

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Question Type:
ID the Disagreement

Stimulus Breakdown:
Monroe: With 2,000 homes left without electricity the organizations project, aimed at reducing the number of homes without electricity as much as possible, has been a failiure.

Answer Anticipation:
Monroe and Wilkerson disagree about whether the organization's project has been a failure.

Correct answer:
(E)

Answer choice analysis:
(A) is a claim that both Monroe and Wilkerson would agree with.

(B) is half scope. While Wilkerson would agree, Monroe does not address this point.

(C) is too strong. While Wilkerson would disagree with this point, Monroe would not agree with it. This view is stronger than what Monroe asserts.

(D) is half scope. While Monroe would agree, Wilkerson does not address this point.

(E) is correct. While Monroe would agree, Wilkerson would disagree.

Takeaway/Pattern: Degree is a very important issue on ID the Disagreement, just as it is important on Inference questions. Weaker ideas are easier for one of the speakers to agree with, while stronger ideas are easier to disagree with.

#officialexplanation

[supervegan]

I can see why (E) is the correct answer, but I am having some difficulty eliminating (C).

(C) - if any home has no electricity, then project must be considered a failure.

The way I see it, Monroe would agree with (C) and Wilkerson would disagree, since he thinks that despite numerous homes not having electricity at the end of the project, bringing 3000 homes electricity still counts as a success.

Why is (C) wrong?

[RoyE664]

I can see why (E) is the correct answer, but I am having some difficulty eliminating (C).

(C) - if any home has no electricity, then project must be considered a failure.

The way I see it, Monroe would agree with (C) and Wilkerson would disagree, since he thinks that despite numerous homes not having electricity at the end of the project, bringing 3000 homes electricity still counts as a success.

Why is (C) wrong?

Its been a minute since this question was asked; however, to address this point (as I did during my PT), the use of the word "any" in C is too strong. For this scenario, do we know for a fact that Monroe would consider the project a failure if there were only 2 houses without electricity? We do know he considers 2k too many, but is there a number less than 2k that Monroe would consider a success? Since we don't know for sure, we cannot confidently chose C with E as another option.