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ID: LSAT-LR-135
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Weaken the Argument
Difficulty level: Medium

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Path officer: We pitched the Glenrow path four years ago, and the scar beside it has narrowed each summer since. The ranger's brash washed off that first winter and was never laid again; the stile counter records as many walkers each year as before. Walkers take the easier line, and a pitched line is easier going than wet peat. So it is the pitching that has closed the scar.

Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the officer's argument?

AHeather brash laid over bare peat holds the surface long enough for moss and cotton grass to root in it, and a scar treated that way will commonly close within about four summers.

BWhere the pitching lies under water for much of the year, the scar beside it has narrowed less than elsewhere.

CThe stone for the pitching was got from the hill itself and carried up by pony, as the estate has done for every repair to that path.

DGlenrow's stone stays slippery through most of the summer, and walkers have kept to the peat beside it rather than to the pitching in each of the four years since it was laid.

EWalkers stopped at the stile said they would rather walk on stone than on peat, though most had never walked Glenrow before the pitching was laid.

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