Information and IdeasEasy–MediumInference from unchanged total sales
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A supermarket moved its fruit and vegetables from the back of the store to a display just inside the entrance. In the following month, sales of fresh produce rose by 15 percent, while the store's total sales were unchanged. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. customers spent more on produce and correspondingly less on other items.Correct
- B. the new display attracted many customers who had never shopped at the store before.
- C. the store had raised the prices of its fruit and vegetables.
- D. customers stopped buying anything other than produce.
Answer: A. customers spent more on produce and correspondingly less on other items.
Produce sales rose but the total didn't move, so the extra produce spending must have come out of spending on something else.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the new display attracted many customers who had never shopped at the store before.
- New customers would have raised TOTAL sales, which were unchanged.
- C. the store had raised the prices of its fruit and vegetables.
- Nothing in the text concerns prices.
- D. customers stopped buying anything other than produce.
- Total sales unchanged with produce at 15 percent more means other items still sold — just somewhat less.
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