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Information and Ideas practice question
Annual rainfall and wheat yield on one farm:
2020: 410 mm, 3.1 tonnes per hectare
2021: 520 mm, 3.9 tonnes per hectare
2022: 640 mm, 4.0 tonnes per hectare
2023: 760 mm, 3.4 tonnes per hectare
Which statement is best supported by the data?
- A. Yield rose with rainfall up to a point, but the wettest year produced a lower yield than the two years before it.Correct
- B. Yield increased every year as rainfall increased.
- C. The driest year produced the highest yield.
- D. Rainfall had no discernible relationship to yield.
Answer: A. Yield rose with rainfall up to a point, but the wettest year produced a lower yield than the two years before it.
Yield climbs from 3.1 to 3.9 to 4.0 as rain increases, then falls to 3.4 in the wettest year, 2023. Choice A describes both the rise and the reversal.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Yield increased every year as rainfall increased.
- 2023 was the wettest year, and its yield FELL to 3.4.
- C. The driest year produced the highest yield.
- The driest year, 2020, had the LOWEST yield, 3.1.
- D. Rainfall had no discernible relationship to yield.
- There is a clear pattern — rising, then falling — so 'no relationship' is wrong.
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