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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-030
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
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Difficulty level: Medium

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Rakhee: The village's new footbridge should be timber, not steel. Timber would cost a third less to build, and the village's engineer puts a timber bridge's working life on this site at thirty years.

Tomasz: The engineer's thirty-year figure assumes the bridge is re-coated every five years. The village has never re-coated a timber structure on schedule, and un-recoated, a timber bridge here would need replacing after twelve years.

Tomasz responds to Rakhee's argument by doing which of the following?

ADisputing the accuracy of the cost comparison on which Rakhee relies

BIdentifying a condition Rakhee's evidence depends on and giving grounds to doubt it

CShowing that Rakhee's recommendation conflicts with a general principle that Rakhee accepts

DConcluding that over thirty years a steel bridge would cost the village less than a timber one

EQuestioning the engineer's qualifications to judge how long a timber structure will last

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