LSAT Prep 101 Section 2

PrepTest 101 / Section 2 Pause Directions Find Text, Type Here U DA D . | AA =Section Time Remaining: 05:51 Environmental scientist: It is true that over the past ten years, there 18. Which one of the following, if true, most helps to reconcile the has been a sixfold increase in government funding for the environmental scientist's conclusion with the evidence cited preservation of wetlands, while the total area of wetlands above? needing such preservation has increased only twofold (although this area was already large ten years ago). Even when inflation (A) I he governmental agency responsible for administering is taken into account, the amount of funding now is at least wetland-preservation funds has been consistently three times what it was ten years ago. Nevertheless, the current mismanaged and run inefficiently over the past ten amount of government funding for the preservation of wetlands years is inadequate and should be augmented. B Over the past ten years, the salaries of scientists O employed by the government to work on the preservation of wetlands have increased at a rate higher than the inflation rate. Research over the past ten years has enabled scientists today to identify wetlands in need of preservation well before the areas are at serious risk of destruction. D More people today, scientists and nonscientists alike, are working to preserve all natural resources, including wetlands. ) Unlike today. funding for the preservation of wetlands O was almost nonexistent ten years ago 6 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 76 All comeor c 56 zm DO