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ID: LSAT-LR-174
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Resolve the Paradox
Difficulty level: Medium

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Hall manager: The hall rang, so we lined the side walls with panels that take sound in rather than throw it back. The ring is now a third of what it was, and a meter on the platform reads the same from a speaker as it ever did. Speech should carry better for that. Instead people at the back say they follow a speaker less easily than before.

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

AThose at the back of a hall of this size have always followed a speaker less well than those near the platform, whatever the panels on the side walls do with sound.

BTwo rows at the very back sit under a balcony, and the panels on the side walls do not reach as far back along the hall as the balcony's underside.

CWhat is read on the platform is how loud a sound is, and nothing about how clearly a word from a speaker comes through.

DPlayers on the platform have found they hear one another less well since the panels went up.

ESound thrown back by the side walls reached the back of the hall soon enough to add to a speaker's voice there, not to blur it.

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