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ID: LSAT-LR-007
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Manager: Our warehouse team packed twelve percent more orders last quarter than in the quarter before, and we issued the team with the new handheld scanners at the start of that quarter. The size of the team and its shift pattern were the same across the two quarters. The scanners are clearly what raised our output.

The reasoning in the manager's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Arelies on a comparison between two quarters of unequal length, so that the extra weeks alone could account for the rise

Bconfuses the number of orders the team packed with the value of the orders it packed, and so with what the quarter's work was worth to the company

Cgeneralises from a single quarter's figures to a lasting gain, when unfamiliar equipment can lift output briefly

Dtreats the one change it happens to have noticed as though it were the only thing that could have raised output

Etakes a change in the output of a single warehouse team to establish something about the productivity of the company as a whole, whose other departments went uncounted in both quarters

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