Information and IdeasEasy–MediumInference from a change in shelf position
Information and Ideas practice question
The bookshop moved its poetry shelf from a back corner to the space beside the till. Poetry sales tripled the following month, although the shop stocked exactly the same titles. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. where books are placed in the shop affects how many of them are bought.Correct
- B. customers suddenly developed a taste for poetry.
- C. the shop began stocking better poets.
- D. the till was moved to the back of the shop.
Answer: A. where books are placed in the shop affects how many of them are bought.
Same titles, new position, three times the sales: position is what changed.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. customers suddenly developed a taste for poetry.
- A sudden change of taste is a bigger assumption than the shelf move, which the text names.
- C. the shop began stocking better poets.
- The text says the same titles were stocked.
- D. the till was moved to the back of the shop.
- The shelf moved to the till, not the other way round.
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