Q16 - G: The group of works

[grantsbuchanan]

This is confusing to me.

G says that "equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show"

H says "all submitted works that met the traditional criteria were exhiited in the show"

How can answer choice (E) be true. This seems to violate G's statement.

[tamwaiman]

Hi grantsbuchanan

G: "Equal numbers of people met the criteria."
H: "All submitted works met the criteria."

HTH

[cyruswhittaker]

G: Although there was an equal number of photographers, sculptors, and painters who submitted works, more photographs were exhibited than either sculptures or paintings.

H: All submitted works that met the traditional criteria were exhibited.

So if those above facts are true, then more works had to be submitted by the photographers. If not (equal or less), then it would contradict the fact asserted by G.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

So if those above facts are true, then more works had to be submitted by the photographers. If not (equal or less), then it would contradict the fact asserted by G.

That's exactly right!

If more photographs were exhibited than either sculptures or paintings and only those works that met the criteria were exhibited, then more photographs were submitted than sculptures or paintings. Since each artist was only permitted to submit in one medium we can generalize as answer choice (E) does to state that photographs = works submitted by photographers.

Does that clear this one up?

[tzyc]

So they did not have them compete to outdo each other, but as long as their works satisfy the criteria, they are all exhibited?

[shariracquel]

They are only allowed to submit in one medium....therefore it is possible that photographers submitted more than one photo, and therefore there were more photos to display that met the traditional criteria than there were of sculptors/painters.

Bingo!!!

[LauraS737]

Can someone explain why answer choice (B) is incorrect?

[andrewgong01]

Can someone explain why answer choice (B) is incorrect?

B says that all works met the critea but we don't know how pieces were rejected and hence it can not be an inference we make. "G" only tells us that equal # of different artists met the traditional criteria but we know nothing about the rejection rate. H only concerns work that met the criteria and hence it is out of scope to say "H" implies no works were rejected.

A question I did have is that doesn't "E" , the credited response, assume photographers submitted photos and that painters submitted paintings? Nothing in the stimulus says they only submitted work in their primary medium so it could be the case that we had more photographs not because photographers sent in more photos but because photographs were submitted by sculptors and painters instead who deviated from their usual medium.

[ohthatpatrick]

The passage said "all submitted works that met the traditional criteria were exhibited".

We could symbolize that as
"Submitted work that me criteria ---> exhibited"

(B) is saying
"Submitted work ---> met criteria".

That's like going from saying
"All NFL teams that have star quarterbacks have a chance of winning the Superbowl"
to saying
"All NFL teams have star quarterbacks".

In regards to the numbers game with (E), you would NOT be allowed to have a sculptor submit both a sculpture AND a photograph.

It says "each artist is allowed to submit work in one medium only".

Technically, a sculptor could submit a photograph and NOT a sculpture, but a sculptor couldn't submit both.

I think LSAT was just letting us use our common sense when it came to photographers, sculptors, and painters submitting works in their primary medium.

The looseness of the numbers come from the fact that the rule is
"You can only submit works in one medium"
whereas we tend to hear/think
"You only get to submit ONE WORK PER MEDIUM", which is NOT what it says.

Hope this helps.