Logical reasoning PrepTest 145 · Section 4 · Question 15

Incorrect. While experience is noted as being necessary to truly solving problems, there's no support for the idea that more experience leads to more creativity. This relative connection doesn't have any premises in support of it, so we can eliminate it.

Incorrect. While experience is needed for solutions to be crafted, there's no indication that those with experience rarely miss creative solutions.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Argument

Valid or Flawed:
Valid

Question Type:
Must Be True

Stimulus Summary:
Attempts at creativity without experience → not Work
Problem solved → Understand problems
not Experience → not Understand problems

Answer Anticipation:
First off, let's skip over that first statement. It's about what a certain group believes, whereas the rest of the argument provides strong, conditional relationships that can lead to inferences. At best, a question structured this way would have that first statement circled back to with an answer stating that the viewpoint is wrong or misguided. However, since this stimulus more or less explicitly states that, that's an unlikely answer.

With that first statement skipped over, let's look at the others. They all have conditional words ("are futile" is the same as "won't work"; "only"; "without"), so we've diagrammed them out. While the first sentence doesn't chain nicely together with the latter two, we can take the contrapositive of one of them to get:

Problem solved → Understand problems → Experience
not Experience → not Understand problems → not Problem solved

In short, solutions require experience. So those without experience can't offer true solutions. Let's find an answer reflecting that.

Answer Explanation:
Without experience, someone can't understand a problem and therefore can't offer a solution for it. So creative solutions—a subset of solutions generally—must only come from those with experience, as this answer states.

Key Takeaway:
You should be developing a sense for what types of statements generally do and do not lead to inferences in Must Be True questions. While there are exceptions to almost every rule on the LSAT, there are certain statements—causal, comparative, strong, conditional—that lend themselves to inferences, so focusing on them can save you some time on this question type.

Incorrect. There's no discussion of the complexity of fields, so this answer is out of scope.

Incorrect. A "should" answer without similar language in the stimulus is almost never correct in a Must Be True question. Without strong statements in this area (responsibility, training), this answer isn't supported.