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ID: LSAT-LR-171
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Resolve the Paradox
Difficulty level: Medium

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Pressing plant manager: Every disc carries a stamp in its run-out groove naming the cycle that pressed it, and both our press-floor figures and our dealer-return figures are compiled from that stamp. Discs pressed on the slower cycle leave the press warped less than half as often as discs pressed on the old one. Yet a larger share of them come back from dealers as warped. Materials and packing are unchanged.

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

ADealers' shelves turn over slowly, and a shop that took a large delivery before the change may be selling from it a year later, so many of the records coming back now were pressed on the old cycle.

BThe dealers who send back the most records are the largest shops on the plant's books, and those same large shops took nearly all of the first slower-cycle pressings the plant sent out to the trade.

CThe plant held its weekly output on the longer cycle by taking discs off the cooling table sooner, and a disc stacked before it has finished cooling takes on a warp the press did not give it.

DThe plant sends every pressing out through the same warm dispatch bay, and a disc that has left the press perfectly flat can still take on a warp from standing too long on edge in the heat of that bay.

EThe plant now takes returns from a far larger number of dealers than sent it back anything at all in the years when the old cycle was the only one running on the press floor.

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