Information and IdeasEasy–MediumReading a table of a bookshop's sales by section
Information and Ideas practice question
Books sold at a bookshop last month
Section | Books sold
Fiction | 640
Children's | 410
History | 150
According to the table, fiction sold ____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
- A. more than four times as many books as history.Correct
- B. fewer books than the children's section.
- C. exactly 410 books.
- D. about the same number as history.
Answer: A. more than four times as many books as history.
640 is more than 4 × 150.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. fewer books than the children's section.
- 640 is more than 410.
- C. exactly 410 books.
- 410 is children's.
- D. about the same number as history.
- 640 is far more than 150.
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