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ID: LSAT-LR-050
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Inference
Difficulty level: Medium

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A tree grown in a hedge line stands straighter than one grown in the open, because its neighbours shelter it from wind. Foresters who want straight timber therefore plant close and thin later. But a tree that has grown among close neighbours carries a narrow crown, and a narrow crown makes for slow growth once the neighbours are taken out. So thinning a plantation

Which one of the following most logically completes the passage?

Ashould be carried out as early in the rotation as the young trees will bear the exposure, so that the crowns of the ones left standing have years in which to widen

Bleaves the trees that remain to take the wind their neighbours had been sheltering them from, and so liable to grow crooked in the seasons that follow

Cproduces trees that are straight in the stem and quick to put on timber once the crowding is relieved

Dbuys straightness in the stem at a cost in the growth that the trees left standing can make once their neighbours are gone

Eis unnecessary where the trees have been planted along a hedge line, since the shelter a hedge line gives has already made those stems as straight as they will be

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