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ID: LSAT-LR-156
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Assumption
Difficulty level: Medium

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Basketmaker: We buy only the top two grades of willow, which cost half as much again as the third. A third-grade rod snaps oftener at the upsett, but a snapped rod costs a minute to replace, and on any basket we make the top grades' extra price comes to more than a minute's work for every rod they save us. So we should buy the third grade.

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the basketmaker's argument?

AA rod that has snapped and been replaced leaves the basket it goes into no worse than a rod that went in whole, so the minute of work is the whole of what a snap costs

BThe minute spent replacing a snapped rod is a minute that would otherwise have gone into work the workshop is paid for, and not into time it could not have sold

CMoving to the third grade would cut what the workshop pays for willow by more than replacing snapped rods could cost it in time

DWorkshops that buy the third grade do not pay more for it, delivered and stripped, than this workshop pays for its top two grades

EWillow within a single grade can still vary in whatever decides how a rod behaves at the upsett

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