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ID: LSAT-LR-192
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Weaken the Argument
Difficulty level: Hard

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Sailmaker: A cruising sail loses its shape when the cloth stretches along its seams. Three seasons ago we began cutting cruising sails on the radial plan, which sets the seams along the load. Owners who have taken a radial sail from us since report a far smaller share of their sails out of shape than owners carrying our cross-cut sails. So the radial plan is what keeps a cruising sail in shape.

Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the sailmaker's argument?

ACruising sails of the radial cut cost about a fifth more to make than cross-cut ones, whether or not a sail ever goes out of shape.

BOwners who ordered radial sails have spent more days afloat over the seasons than owners of cross-cut ones, and hard use puts a sail out of shape soonest.

CFew cruising sails, whether radial or cross-cut, go out of shape until they have seen four seasons of ordinary use.

DOwners hold on to the cruising sail they have, whichever cut it is, for seasons after it goes out of shape, though a cross-cut sail costs less to recut.

EOwners of storm sails, cut to neither pattern, find them out of shape about as often as they did.

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