Most to Some

Hi @Tyler808, Thanks for the question! So “most” will often entail “some,” so if we say that most serious students go to grad school, that also means that some serious students go to grad school, since “most” includes “some” in that sense. That’s not really what happens here; we have two groups of “most,” which by LSAT logic have to overlap. So let’s say there’s 100 serious students. Well, we know then that if most of them are happy, that means at least 51 of them are happy (since most is more than half, at the least). OK, now let’s say most serious students go to graduate school; that means that 51 students go to graduate school. Is it possible for these two be two separate groups? No, because 51+51=102; there has to be at least one person overlapping between the two groups who is both happy and goes to graduate school. Because we know that this one person exists, then that person is also overworked (since they go to graduate school), but they’re also happy. So that’s how we get “some” (which, remember, on the LSAT means at least one) from “most” here. Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

Thank you, @Shunhe! Will let you know if I have any more questions. Best, Tyler

Great, glad you got it!