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ID: LSAT-LR-11
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Assumption
Difficulty level: Hard

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The print circulation of The World Tribune has shown a 40 percent decline in the past two years. However, the traffic on the newspaper's website has increased by 30 percent during the same period. The website contains many news sections and blogs that are not featured in the print newspaper but are the most read pages of the website. Therefore, to maintain its profits, the newspaper has decided to discontinue its still-profitable print edition and to introduce more content on the website that is similar to the exclusive content on the most read pages of the website.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the decision of The World Tribune depends?

AThe print circulation of the newspaper would not have declined further in the near future.

BTo access the content on the newspaper's website, the readers of the website will be willing to pay a monthly subscription fees that is equal to the revenue that the print edition of the newspaper earned per reader each month.

CThe print circulation of the newspaper declined in the past two years because the newspaper's website offered more interesting content.

DThe revenue earned from increased website traffic will not be less than the revenue lost by discontinuing the print edition.

EIntroducing more content similar to the exclusive content on the most read pages of the website will increase the newspaper's website traffic further.