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[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

Main Point, Fill in the Blank. The correct answer choice is (B).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[sxzhao]

A question re: the overall strategy for "complete the stimulus" type of question:

Should we treat them the SAME as "must be true"? If not, what's the difference?

I understand why choice (b) properly follows from the given information, but (e) appears a lot more like a reasonable way of ending a paragraph - I know ... probabaly the worst way of approaching all LSAT questions, but just mentioning to provide context for the question above.

Thanks!

[Luke Haqq]

Hi sxzhao!

Yes, fill in the blank questions are a type of must be true question. The difference is that, on this type of question, the correct answer choice must correctly identify the main point or conclusion of the stimulus. So there could be an answer choice that must be true based on the stimulus but is ultimately incorrect because it doesn't accurately capture its main point.

Regarding answer choice (E) here, there's no mention of gradual assimilation nor other mention of speed (e.g., it also doesn't talk about quick assimilation). So even though it might seem like a nicer way to finish a paragraph, it doesn't really logically complete this one.