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Information and Ideas practice question
Household recycling collected in a town, 2024 (tonnes)
Material | Collected | Share rejected as contaminated
Paper | 2,400 | 5%
Glass | 1,800 | 2%
Plastic | 900 | 22%
A council officer notes that plastic is the smallest stream by weight but ____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
- A. the most troublesome, with 22 percent of it rejected as contaminated against 5 percent of paper and 2 percent of glass.Correct
- B. paper is the largest stream, at 2,400 tonnes.
- C. glass has the lowest contamination rate.
- D. 900 tonnes of plastic were collected.
Answer: A. the most troublesome, with 22 percent of it rejected as contaminated against 5 percent of paper and 2 percent of glass.
Smallest by weight, worst by contamination.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. paper is the largest stream, at 2,400 tonnes.
- About paper.
- C. glass has the lowest contamination rate.
- About glass.
- D. 900 tonnes of plastic were collected.
- Repeats the weight, no contrast.
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