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Information and Ideas practice question

A hotel put a card in each room asking guests to reuse their towels 'to help the environment'. Reuse rose slightly. A second card, saying that 'most guests in this room reuse their towels', raised reuse far more. This suggests that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. guests were influenced more by what other guests did than by the environmental appeal.Correct
  2. B. guests do not care about the environment.
  3. C. the second card was larger.
  4. D. most guests never read the cards.

Answer: A. guests were influenced more by what other guests did than by the environmental appeal.

The social message outperformed the environmental one.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. guests do not care about the environment.
The first card did raise reuse slightly.
C. the second card was larger.
Size isn't mentioned; the wording changed.
D. most guests never read the cards.
Reuse changed with the wording, so guests read them.

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