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ID: LSAT-LR-162
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Medium

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Engineer: The trust says the bound gravel failed because cyclists use the towpath more than walkers do. The counts taken since the resurfacing do show that. But the counts taken before it show the same, and the loose surface it replaced lasted eleven years. The failure is in the binder, not in who is on the path.

The engineer's reply to the trust's explanation proceeds by doing which one of the following?

AIt grants the trust's evidence and denies it any force, since the state of affairs it blames held under the surface this one replaced, which did not fail.

BIt undercuts the trust's explanation by establishing that the towpath carries no heavier traffic now than in the years of the surface that lasted, so the binder is the only change.

CIt sets out conditions a surface must satisfy to count as sound and shows that the bound gravel met none of them while the loose surface met them all.

DIt offers an account of the failure that puts it in the surface's material rather than in the use of the path.

EIt faults the trust for concluding anything about this towpath's failure without having counted the users of any other path.

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