Prompt: Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the municipal legislator’s argument?
Difficulty: 🌕🌕🌕🌑
How will the right answer fit in terms of support and conclusion?
Only the right answer will match the main conclusion in the passage.
Highlight the main conclusion in the passage, if there is one:
Surely there would be no problem in accepting these
Municipal legislator: [BACKGROUND]. [CONCLUSION]. despite [BACKGROUND]. [BACKGROUND]. In any case, [SUPPORT].
No worries if you weren’t sure about the conclusion until you finished reading. But you see the author cites a couple possible counter-arguments as background, then the last sentence has their reasoning. So basically the argument is that favoritism is prevented, therefore the gift is no problem.
Map the wording of the answers to the wording of the passage:
(A) Some people’s fear…is unfounded.
Most importantly, you just tagged the conclusion and this isn’t it. But if you weren’t sure, there’s no wording in the passage that means “unfounded”.
(B) …to accept the gift…should not be considered problematic.
Boom. Are we done here, or what?
(C) It is not appropriate…
Stop. There’s nothing in the passage that says something is not appropriate. Moving on.
(D) The city’s competitive-bidding procedure prevents favoritism…
This info was used as support, but didn’t get support. So it’s not a conclusion.
(E) The lighting company’s desire...is the real motivation…
This isn’t even stated anywhere, so it can’t be the main conclusion.
(B) is the correct answer.
Elliot Hirsen / LSAT coach 
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