First Example LSAT Question

Among the inventory at a certain vintage furniture store are seven lamps. Each lamp has either a ceramic or wood base, and each lamp comes with either a brown, red, or green shade.

• More lamps have a ceramic base than a wood base.
• Every red lamp shade is paired with a ceramic base.
• No lamp with a wood base has a brown shade.

1. Which statement about the seven lamps CANNOT be true?

A. Five lamps have red shades

B. Five lamps have a ceramic base.

C. Five lamps have brown shades.

D. Four lamps have a wood base.

E. four lamps have green shades

First, read the question carefully! You are trying to figure out which option CANNOT be true. 

The correct answer is D. Four lamps have a wood base

Why? It is stated that "More lamps have a ceramic base than a wood base." 

There are seven lamps, so having four wood base lamps would mean there would only be three ceramic base lamps.

This is one of the easy questions that I could find. I was so overwhelmed with the questions, but practice always makes perfect! Tell me how you did on the first question!

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