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ID: LSAT-LR-139
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Weaken the Argument
Difficulty level: Medium

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Woodsman: Hoathly's hazel was cut every seven years until 1990 and every twelve since. Fritillaries were counted along the rides in 1988 and again last year, and the second count is a third of the first. The violets their caterpillars eat grow in the cut panels, not on the rides, and a panel twelve years from the axe carries none. The rotation is why the rides have emptied.

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

AThe rides at Hoathly have been widened and their verges cut twice in each season since 1990, and violets will not survive a verge cut twice over in one summer.

BBoth the 1988 count and last year's were walked along one fixed route on a warm, windless day in June.

CWoods within twenty miles of Hoathly that have kept to a seven-year rotation carry as many fritillaries along their rides today as Hoathly carried in 1988.

DTwelve-year hazel yields poles the hurdle-makers will pay for and seven-year hazel does not, and the wood has need of the money.

ESince 1990 the panels at Hoathly have been cut in the autumn rather than in late winter, and violets in a panel cut in autumn do not survive the first hard frost that follows.

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