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ID: LSAT-LR-068
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Assumption
Difficulty level: Easy

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Planner: Closing the level crossing will not add to journey times. Traffic would use the new bridge instead, which is four hundred metres further along the road but is never held at a barrier, whereas the crossing is closed to road traffic for eleven minutes in an average hour, and for appreciably longer at the two peaks.

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

AThe time a driver loses to the extra four hundred metres is not greater than the time now lost at the barrier.

BNo driver would rather wait at the barrier than drive the extra four hundred metres to the bridge, whatever the difference in time between the two routes turns out to be.

CThe new bridge was built in order to replace the level crossing, and not for some purpose of its own.

DEvery driver who now uses the level crossing would go by the new bridge rather than find some other route to the same destination or abandon the journey.

EEleven minutes is the longest the barrier is ever down within a single hour, so no driver waits longer than that.

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