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ID: LSAT-LR-137
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Weaken the Argument
Difficulty level: Medium

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Hop grower: A cone loses oil in the kiln and loses more again in the bale. Our kilns run at sixty degrees and the county's at sixty-five; our bales reach the brewery holding eighty-two per cent of their oil, the county's seventy. Both figures are the brewery's, taken as the bales are opened, and from the same varieties. The cooler kiln is what puts us twelve points ahead.

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

AHops dried at sixty degrees leave the kiln wetter than hops dried at sixty-five, and hops baled damp go on giving up oil in the bale.

BThe county's growers pack their bales under a press this grower has never owned, and hops pressed at that force have their oil glands ruptured wholesale before baling.

CThe brewery's laboratory reads about two points high, and does so on hops of any variety from any oast.

DOasts in the north that dry their hops at sixty-five degrees send bales to their brewers holding barely sixty per cent of the oil, well below what the county's growers manage.

EIn one of the last six seasons the county's bales reached the brewery holding seventy-three per cent, three points above its usual.

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