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ID: LSAT-LR-194
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Medium

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Ropemaker: Our three-strand line has been failing at the splice, and the yarn merchant we changed to in February has been blamed. Every failure is in line laid between March and June. Over those same months the forming machine ran at a higher twist, because a bearing was worn. We buy from that merchant still, and nothing laid since July has failed. The merchant is not our trouble.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the method of reasoning the ropemaker uses?

AIt answers a charge against the merchant by noting that the machine was altered in the very week his yarn came in, and fixing on the machine instead.

BIt clears the merchant by noting that his yarn was in use before and after the failures, and lays them on a fault in the machine that lasted as long.

CIt rests on the claim that every length the machine turned out while at fault came out weak, whatever yarn the merchant had sent.

DIt clears the merchant by showing that the failures stopped when his yarn was dropped.

EIt rules the merchant's yarn out by treating a fault in the machine as enough on its own to explain the failures.

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