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The researchers fitted forty urban foxes with collars that recorded location every ten minutes. Over a year, the collars showed that the foxes travelled an average of six kilometres a night, mostly along railway lines and canal towpaths, and rarely crossed main roads.
According to the text, what did the collars record?
- A. Each fox's location every ten minutes.Correct
- B. Each fox's weight over the year.
- C. The number of foxes in the city.
- D. The food each fox ate.
Answer: A. Each fox's location every ten minutes.
Location every ten minutes.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Each fox's weight over the year.
- Weight is not mentioned.
- C. The number of foxes in the city.
- Forty foxes were fitted; the collars did not count foxes.
- D. The food each fox ate.
- Food is not mentioned.
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