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ID: LSAT-LR-126
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Medium

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Warden: Members complain that the new stove burns more wood than the old one. It does, and the club should keep it anyway. The complaint measures the wrong thing: what the old stove saved in wood it cost in the two days a season a volunteer spent rebuilding its flue. The new flue has needed nothing in four seasons, and volunteers are scarcer than firewood.

The claim that the new stove burns more wood than the old one plays which one of the following roles in the warden's argument?

AIt is the conclusion the warden’s argument finally supports, the four-season record of the new flue and the shortage of volunteers being his reasons.

BIt is a claim the argument grants and then rebuts, the four seasons showing the new stove burns no more wood.

CIt is the members’ complaint restated in the warden’s own terms, so that the argument can go on to show that they have misdescribed how often the old stove’s flue had to be rebuilt.

DIt is a concession the warden makes without letting it bear on the case, which needs no more than the flue record and the volunteer shortage.

EIt is granted to the members as true, and the case for keeping the stove is that what it measures is outweighed by a cost their comparison omits.

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