Passage A The availability of used textbooks serves to increase the price of new textbooks. There are several reasons to conclude this. One reason is that textbook publishers will sell fewer new textbooks if used textbooks are widely available, forcing them continuously to create new textbook editions to generate sustainable revenue. This results in a cyclical process whereby publishers publish a new edition, let the market saturate with used textbooks, spend capital to produce another new edition, publish the revision, and again wait for the used textbook market to become saturated with the new edition. This process continues indefinitely, with each new edition having a further inflated price. Passage A makes an . Passage B Every hardship is endurable. This can be seen from the following considerations. Regardless of your situation, there are either actions you can take to improve it, or there are ways of better handling the situation psychologically. Some situations may demand radical action, and some situations may demand radical psychological detachment, but even the worst situations are endurable with the right action and the right mind set.
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Passage C Logic should be adopted as a requirement for a pre-law degree. This conclusion easily follows from the measurable improvement pre-law students demonstrate on the LSAT after having taken a logic course. The previous conclusion is also evidenced by a logic student's ability to follow a complex chain of reasoning with greater ease than someone with no formal training in good reasoning
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