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ID: LSAT-LR-209
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Hard

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Ice technician: Ice that has taken in damp runs slow whatever head laid its pebble. The club puts our slow sheets after Christmas down to the new pebble heads and wants the heads replaced. But the roof vents stood open all January, and the hall's humidity was above the recommended figure on every day a sheet was timed slow. Replacing the heads would be money wasted.

The ice technician's reasoning is most vulnerable to criticism on the ground that it

Arelies on a rule about damp without saying how much damp a sheet must absorb before it goes slow, or how long that damp stays in a sheet once the weather turns

Bdismisses an explanation of the slow sheets merely because those who press it stand to gain from what would be spent on them

Crests its account of what made the sheets slow on damp readings from the days a sheet was already known to be slow, and from no others

Dtreats damp that was on its own enough to slow a sheet as showing that nothing else slowed any sheet

Etakes what held of the sheets found slow in one month to have held of every sheet all season

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