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ID: LSAT-LR-115
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Assumption
Difficulty level: Medium

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Cheesemaker: We moved the ripening last spring, and in the new cellar wheels of our oldest recipe take their rind in eleven weeks where the old cellar took fourteen. The new cellar is a degree cooler than the old one, and cold slows a rind. So the new cellar's greater humidity must be doing more to hurry the rind along than the extra degree of cold is doing to hold it back.

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

AThe single degree by which the new cellar is cooler is doing at least something to hold the rind back, rather than being too small to tell on a wheel at all.

BWheels of this recipe take no longer to form a rind in the new cellar than they take in the cellars of other makers whose humidity is comparable.

CThe three weeks gained are not owed entirely to some feature of the new cellar other than its humidity and its cold.

DThe humidity of the new cellar is high enough that, acting alone and with no help from anything else about the room, it would take a full three weeks off the ripening of this recipe.

EA rind formed in eleven weeks is at least the equal of one that took fourteen, so nothing was lost in quality.

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