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ID: LSAT-LR-3
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in Reasoning
Difficulty level: Medium

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While earlier, Aspen Publishers offered discounts only on their hardcover or paperback books, for the past one year, they have been offering discounts on their e-books as well. As a result, their e-book sales have doubled in the past year while their hardcover and paperback sales remained unchanged. Thus, they now sell more e-books than hardcover and paperback books.

The argument's reasoning is questionable because the argument fails to rule out the possibility that

ABefore Aspen Publishers started to offer discounts on their e-books, the number of e-books published by them was more than twice the number of hardcover and paperback books published by them.

BBefore Aspen Publishers started to offer discounts on their e-books, the number of e-books published by them was less than half the number of hardcover and paperback books published by them.

CThe post-discount selling price of e-books is much lower than that of hardcover and paperback books.

DBefore Aspen Publishers started to offer discounts on their e-books, the number of hardcover and paperback books they sold per annum was less than half the number of e-books they sold per annum.

EBefore Aspen Publishers started to offer discounts on their e-books, the number of hardcover and paperback books they sold per annum was more than twice the number of e-books they sold per annum.

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