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ID: LSAT-LR-167
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Resolve the Paradox
Difficulty level: Medium

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Beekeeper: What we sell stands in the boxes above the brood nest, and those boxes are weighed off each September. Six springs ago the hives went from rough grazing onto a clover ley yielding several times the nectar. In every season since, the boxes have come off no heavier than on the grazing, and twice lighter. Our second apiary, left on the grazing, weighs off what it always did.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the discrepancy described above?

ANectar from a clover ley is thicker than the nectar these hives gathered before, so a given weight of it ripens into more honey.

BIn two of the six seasons a cold wet fortnight kept the hives off the nectar of a clover ley in flower, and those are the seasons the boxes came off lightest.

CWhat the boxes weigh has varied with the number of days warm enough for flying, on a clover ley as on the old ground.

DA colony working a clover ley of that richness raises young to the limit of its frames, and the extra nectar goes into the bees so raised rather than into the boxes.

EHoney drawn from the nectar of a clover ley fetches less by the pound than what these hives gave.

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