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For questions involving conditional reasoning, is the contrapositive always the answer 100% of the time whether it is an LR or an RC question?

I wish... RC had conditional logic.

I think what you're asking is if the right answer will ever be the straight forward "conditional phrase" i.e., if A then B as opposed to if not B then not A. The answer is definitely yes. Contrapositives are not universally used as right answer choices. Also, arguments in RC sometimes use conditional logic. Not too often though

maybeman wrote:I think what you're asking is if the right answer will ever be the straight forward "conditional phrase" i.e., if A then B as opposed to if not B then not A. The answer is definitely yes. Contrapositives are not universally used as right answer choices. Also, arguments in RC sometimes use conditional logic. Not too often though

So you're saying a question with conditionality may have answer choices in which the contrapositive is not listed? i.e. a must be true question with conditionality that has a right answer that just paraphrases the stimulus?

Sure. They are not all "straightforward". LSAC use words like "unless" "without" and "not" in the same answer choice and use confusing, abstract language. The answer choice can still be the direct conditional phrase. This happens a decent bit.