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Information and IdeasEasy–MediumInference about a bakery's queue

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Every Saturday a queue forms outside the bakery before it opens, and by ten o'clock the shelves are bare. The bakery's owner could reasonably conclude that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. she could sell more bread on Saturdays if she baked more.Correct
  2. B. her customers prefer to shop in the afternoon.
  3. C. her prices are too high.
  4. D. she should open later on Saturdays.

Answer: A. she could sell more bread on Saturdays if she baked more.

Demand exceeds supply.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. her customers prefer to shop in the afternoon.
The queue is in the morning.
C. her prices are too high.
A queue suggests the opposite.
D. she should open later on Saturdays.
Opening later would waste the queue.

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