Information and IdeasHardInference from a bookshop's bestseller list
Information and Ideas practice question
The bookshop's bestseller list is compiled from its own sales. Its top ten this month includes four titles by local authors that appear on no national list. A reader could infer that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the shop's customers buy local authors' books in numbers that national sales do not reflect.Correct
- B. the national lists are wrong.
- C. the shop sells only local authors.
- D. local authors sell well everywhere.
Answer: A. the shop's customers buy local authors' books in numbers that national sales do not reflect.
Local sales, not national ones.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the national lists are wrong.
- The lists measure different things.
- C. the shop sells only local authors.
- Six of the ten are not local.
- D. local authors sell well everywhere.
- They are absent from national lists.
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