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CR · Critical Reasoning
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Soaking chickpeas overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time. However, cooking without presoaking yields firmer chickpeas. Therefore, when a chickpea dish’s quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, chickpeas should not be presoaked. Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
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The firmer the chickpea, the better it tastes.
B
There are no dishes whose quality improves with faster cooking.
C
A dish’s appearance is as important as its taste.
D
None of the other ingredients in the dish need to be presoaked.
E
Firmer chickpeas enhance the quality of a dish.
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BTSFeb 24, 2025
Can someone explain it other way?
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