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ID: LSAT-LR-085
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Of the two hundred people who came to the consultation evening about the new footpath, nearly all spoke in favour of it. The parish council has concluded that the village as a whole wants the footpath built, and will say so in its formal response to the district council next month.

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

Arelies on a group that is too small a part of the village's population to support any conclusion about what the village as a whole wants

Bfails to consider what building the footpath would cost the parish, or who would be asked to pay for it

Ctakes the absence of any opposition at the consultation evening as though silence on the question were by itself an expression of support rather than a withholding of any view

Dtreats the views of the people who chose to give up an evening for the consultation as though they were the views of the village at large

Eassumes that the district council will act on whatever the parish council puts in its formal response next month

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