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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?

  1. A. the company hoped customers would not notice they were getting less for the same money.Correct
  2. B. the company lowered its prices.
  3. C. the cereal has become more filling.
  4. 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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