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ID: LSAT-LR-086
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Medium

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A larger share of the county's road accidents now happens on rural lanes than on the trunk road, and the share has grown for five years running. The council concludes that its safety work should move from the trunk road to the lanes, since that is where the danger now lies.

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

Aassumes that safety work is equally effective wherever it is carried out, so that measures suited to the trunk road would work as well on rural lanes

Btakes a change in how accidents are distributed between two kinds of road to show a change in how many accidents happen on them

Cassumes that the safety work already carried out on the trunk road has been effective enough to account for the shift in where the county's accidents happen

Dtreats the county's roads as though they came in only two kinds, rural lanes and the trunk road

Efails to consider that rural lanes carry far less traffic than the trunk road, so that the same number of accidents on them would represent a higher rate of risk

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