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ID: LSAT-LR-124
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Hard

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Cellar manager: Our cheeses are said to ripen unevenly because the far end of the cellar runs two degrees cooler than the door end. The far end is indeed cooler. But every wheel is moved from one end to the other each fortnight, so no wheel ripens at a single temperature. The unevenness comes from somewhere else, and the turning schedule is where I would look.

The claim that the far end of the cellar is cooler plays which one of the following roles in the manager's argument?

AIt is the conclusion the manager sets out to establish, the fortnightly movement of the wheels between the two ends being part of the evidence he offers for it.

BIt is a point conceded to the explanation the manager rejects and then put out of play by showing that no wheel stays at that temperature throughout.

CIt is a measurement the manager treats as no better than provisional, on the ground that readings taken a fortnight apart at two points need not be comparable.

DIt is evidence the manager offers for his suggestion that the turning schedule is the source of the unevenness.

EIt is the ground on which the manager rests his claim that no wheel ripens at a single temperature, since wheels carried between two ends of equal warmth would ripen at one temperature throughout.

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