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ID: LSAT-LR-147
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Inference
Difficulty level: Hard

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Interception at the Bewl plots is reported as the shortfall between a gauge in the open and the mean of five under the canopy, the five being sited between the trunks, so that water running down bark and into the ground below enters no gauge. Showers the canopy holds without wetting through are left out of the interception record. In last autumn's recorded storms the under-canopy mean was three-fifths of the open catch.

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the statements above?

ARather more than a third of what the Bewl canopy caught in the recorded storms went back to the air rather than to the ground, as held water does.

BIn last autumn's recorded storms the canopy at Bewl kept back two-fifths of the rain that fell on it, the gauges beneath having caught three-fifths of the open one.

CAcross the whole of last autumn the canopy at Bewl kept two-fifths of the rain off the ground below it.

DNone of the rain that fell on the Bewl plots in the showers the canopy held without wetting through reached the ground below, those showers being the ones the record leaves out.

EWater that ran down the trunks at Bewl and into the ground below is counted, in the figure those plots report as interception, as part of what the canopy is said to have kept back.

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