Information and IdeasVery hardInference from three figures together
Information and Ideas practice question
A supermarket's 'buy one, get one free' offers raised sales of the featured products by 40 percent. Total sales for the month, however, were unchanged, and the store's waste-collection bills went up. The likeliest reading of these figures is that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. customers bought the featured items instead of other goods and threw some of the surplus away.Correct
- B. the offers brought in a large number of new customers.
- C. the store's suppliers raised their prices.
- D. customers stopped shopping at the store.
Answer: A. customers bought the featured items instead of other goods and threw some of the surplus away.
Featured sales up, total flat: substitution. Waste bills up: the extra free items weren't all used.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the offers brought in a large number of new customers.
- New customers would have raised total sales, which were unchanged.
- C. the store's suppliers raised their prices.
- Supplier prices aren't mentioned and wouldn't explain the waste bills.
- D. customers stopped shopping at the store.
- Total sales were unchanged, so customers kept shopping.
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