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ID: LSAT-LR-058
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Principle
Difficulty level: Easy

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Principle: One should not accept payment for recommending a course of action one would have recommended in any case, and it makes no difference whether the payment is offered before the recommendation or after it.

Application: The surveyor, engaged by a client to advise on the frame, should not have taken the builder's fee for recommending a timber frame.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to justify the application of the principle?

AA steel frame would have cost the client considerably less than the timber frame the surveyor recommended, and she knew the difference in price when she made her recommendation.

BThe builder's fee was smaller than the surveyor's usual charge for a report of the kind she prepared for the client.

CA timber frame was the right choice for this site, and the client has had no cause to regret following the surveyor's recommendation.

DThe builder pays a fee to every surveyor who specifies his frames, and has done so since he began supplying them in this part of the county.

EThe surveyor had recommended a timber frame on every comparable site for years before the builder approached her.

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