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ID: LSAT-LR-163
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Hard

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Broom maker: The board wants birch heads bound with wire, saying wire-bound heads outlast tied ones. In its trial they did. But every head in that trial was bound by the same two hands, and a tied head is only as good as the hand that ties it. The trial shows what those hands can do.

The broom maker's argument proceeds by doing which one of the following?

AIt denies the trial's result outright, on the ground that a comparison carried out by a single pair of hands can establish nothing whatever about either method.

BIt grants the trial's result and objects that the workmanship was held constant across both methods compared, so that neither outcome can be credited to the binding rather than to the hands.

CIt grants the trial's result and objects that one of the two methods compared depends on the workman in a way the other does not, so the result may be recording the hands.

DIt objects that the wire heads were bound by hands practised in tying rather than in wiring, so the wire was shown below its best.

EIt points out that the board would bind every head by a method tested on birch alone and on no other wood.

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