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ID: LSAT-LR-107
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Inference
Difficulty level: Medium

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The Tallow Farm pasteurises the straw it spawns its oyster mushrooms on not by heat, as most growers do, but by a lime soak in tanks of which some stand outdoors and some under cover. A lime soak leaves straw fit for spawning only while the water it sits in stays alkaline. Of the eight batches soaked in the farm's outdoor tanks last autumn, the water in five had fallen below alkaline before the straw was spawned.

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the statements above?

ALime water is apt to lose its alkalinity faster in an outdoor tank than under cover, which would go some way towards explaining the five failed batches.

BA grower who pasteurises by heat, as most do, need not watch for the failure that overtook five of the farm's eight batches, heat setting no condition of the kind that lapsed.

CIn at least five of last autumn's eight batches the straw was not, when it was spawned, in the condition the farm's method requires, whatever came of them after.

DIn more than half of the batches the farm soaked last autumn, the water had gone flat before spawning.

EIn five of the eight batches the lime soak had not been finished when the straw was spawned, so that straw went in unpasteurised.

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