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ID: LSAT-LR-053
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Evaluate the Argument
Difficulty level: Easy

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Archaeologist: The ditch was dug for drainage rather than for defence. Its sides slope at thirty degrees, which is far too shallow to stop anybody, even though the subsoil here will stand at sixty. And it runs straight down the slope instead of encircling the settlement, which sits above it.

Which one of the following would be most useful to know in evaluating the archaeologist's argument?

AHow many people were living in the settlement that sits above the ditch at the time the ditch was dug

BWhether ditches known to have been dug for defence in this period were cut at angles steeper than thirty degrees

CWhether the ditch was deliberately filled in at some later date rather than left to silt up, and if so how many years after it had first been cut

DWhether the settlement that sits above the ditch would have been visible from any point along the line the ditch takes down the slope, and from how far below it on that line

EHow many working days a ditch of this length, cut through subsoil of the kind found here, would have taken to dig

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