LSAT Prep 101 Section 3

Test 101 / Section 3 Pause Sec Directions Find Text, Type Here Section Time Remaining: 25:57 Bacteria from food can survive for several days on the surface of 5. Which one of the following is an assumption on which the plastic cutting boards, but bacteria can penetrate wooden cutting argument depends? boards almost immediately, leaving the surface free of contamination. Therefore, wooden cutting boards, unlike plastic cutting boards, need not be washed in order to prevent their A Washing plastic cutting boards does not remove all O contaminating food that is cut on them; wiping them off to remove bacteria from the surface. food debris is sufficient. B Prevention of bacterial contamination is the only respect O in which wooden cutting boards are superior to plastic cutting boards. Food that is not already contaminated with bacteria can O be contaminated only by being cut on contaminated cutting boards. (D) Bacteria that penetrate into wooden cutting boards do not reemerge on the surface after the cutting boards have been used. E Washing wooden cutting boards kills bacteria below the O surface of the cutting boards. Q C zm 18