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Information and Ideas practice question
The company's cereal box shrank by a fifth last year, but the price and the picture on the front stayed the same, and the box is now mostly air. It is reasonable to infer that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the company hoped customers would not notice they were getting less for the same money.Correct
- B. the company lowered its prices.
- C. the cereal has become more filling.
- D. the company has stopped making cereal.
Answer: A. the company hoped customers would not notice they were getting less for the same money.
Same price, same picture, less inside: designed not to be noticed.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the company lowered its prices.
- The price stayed the same.
- C. the cereal has become more filling.
- Nothing about the cereal changed but the amount.
- D. the company has stopped making cereal.
- It still sells the cereal.
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