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ID: LSAT-LR-41
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Assumption
Difficulty level: Easy

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At the end of 2024, several universities reported that their total student enrollment had not changed since the end of 2023. Yet enrollment figures almost always fluctuate: they drop as students graduate, transfer, or withdraw, and they rise as new students are admitted. Therefore, an institution's enrollment is unlikely to remain exactly the same from one academic year to the next. So most of the universities claiming their enrollment was unchanged are probably mistaken.

Which one of the following is an assumption the argument requires?

AFor every university that reported no change in enrollment, it is more likely that the institution miscalculated its numbers than that its enrollment truly stayed constant.

BIn 2024, at most of the universities that claimed their enrollment was unchanged, some students graduated, transferred, withdrew, or new students enrolled, or both kinds of changes occurred.

CDuring 2024, at least one university both lost students to graduation or transfer and gained students through new admissions.

DIf a university's end-of-year enrollment report is inaccurate, then that university both lost and gained students during the year.

EUniversities are obliged to report enrollment figures accurately whenever those figures change from one academic year to the next.

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