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ID: LSAT-LR-026
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Medium

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Restaurant owner: Our new supplier's vegetables cost eight percent more than our old supplier's, but since we changed, our food waste has fallen by a fifth and nothing else in the kitchen has changed. Vegetables are about a fifth of what we spend on food. The new supplier is therefore saving us money.

The reasoning above is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Aconcludes that a saving in one part of what the kitchen spends outweighs an increase in another without establishing the size of either against the other

Bconfuses the price the kitchen pays for its vegetables with the price its customers pay for a meal

Cgeneralises from a single kitchen's experience of one change of supplier to a conclusion about what restaurants at large can expect from a new supplier

Dassumes that the old supplier, had it been told what a competitor was charging, could not have lowered its own prices to match and spared the kitchen the eight percent

Eoverlooks the possibility that a kitchen throwing away less produce needs to order less of it, so that the weekly delivery is now smaller than it used to be

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