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ID: LSAT-LR-208
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Medium

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Course planner: On Saturday the competitors who ran round the hill on the third leg finished quicker than those who climbed straight over it. Does that settle it that the way round was the better choice? Nearly everyone who climbed came to the leg with ground to recover. A route looks wrong when the runners who took it were losing ground before they took it.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the method of reasoning used in the course planner's argument?

AIt disputes whether the runners' times were recorded accurately, treating the reported gap as unsound.

BIt holds that times never settle which route is better, since runners do not reach a leg in the same shape as one another.

CIt grants the difference and argues that it does not settle which route was better, since one of the two groups reached the leg behind.

DIt concludes that the route over the top was in fact the better one, since the runners who chose it were behind before they reached the leg.

EIt treats a general claim about the appearance of a route as the thing to settle, and offers the result of one day's racing as the evidence for it.

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