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ID: LSAT-LR-157
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Medium

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Foundry manager: A founder has offered to supply our eight point ready-cast. We should go on casting it ourselves. The face we are offered is a thousandth low to paper, and a thousandth tells on a hand-set page; a face that comes in low cannot be brought up once it is cast. Our moulds have been dressed twice this year, and dressing is what holds a mould to height. And the saving would not pay a dresser for a fortnight.

The claim that the foundry's moulds have been dressed twice this year plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

AIt is an admission that the foundry's own moulds have given trouble, made so that the argument can show how cheaply that trouble is put right

BIt supports a claim the argument nowhere makes in so many words -- that the foundry's own eight point stands at height -- on which the objection to the bought face depends

CIt fixes the standard of height to which the argument holds the face it is offered, a thousandth being what a mould in proper order keeps

DIt is a detail of the foundry's own practice, mentioned in passing and never used, the case against buying in being complete without it

EIt is the cost of casting that the argument sets against the saving to be had from buying the face in

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