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ID: LSAT-LR-020
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Easy

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The council's plan assumes the new cycle lane will take a thousand journeys a day off the ring road. That figure comes from a survey of cyclists in a city twice our size and with three times our rainfall, so it should be treated with caution. But a lane carrying half that number would still pay for itself within eight years. The plan is worth approving.

The claim that a lane carrying half the projected number of journeys would still pay for itself within eight years plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

AIt is the conclusion the argument is offered in support of, and the sentences before it are the reasons given for accepting it.

BIt is offered as evidence that the survey figure on which the council's plan depends, taken as it was in a very different city, is too unreliable to be used as it stands.

CIt is offered to show that a weakness the argument has just conceded in its own evidence does not defeat the plan the argument goes on to endorse.

DIt is the assumption on which the council's plan rests, and the argument sets out to defend it.

EIt states a general principle about when a scheme of this kind is worth approving, which the argument then applies to the council's cycle lane.

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