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07 Aug 2025, 10:44
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To encourage students to make healthier choices, a certain high school cafeteria stopped selling all sodas containing corn syrup. Despite this, a recent survey of the students at the school showed that soda consumption during school hours had risen by 15 percent compared to a survey taken before the cafeteria’s change.
Which of the following, if true, best explains the contradiction present in the passage?
A. In the month before the new survey, several billboards in the school’s town displayed ads for popular brands of soda.
B. The school’s cafeteria, after removing the sodas with corn syrup, began offering sodas made from cane sugar at a lower price than the sodas made with corn syrup.
C. Many families in the school district have at least one parent who works at the town’s biggest employer, a soda distribution plant.
D. In addition to buying sodas at the school cafeteria, students may also purchase sodas from one of the several vending machines on school property.
E. To comply with state standards, the school recently implemented a new health program with a focus on nutrition.
Which of the following, if true, best explains the contradiction present in the passage?
A. In the month before the new survey, several billboards in the school’s town displayed ads for popular brands of soda.
B. The school’s cafeteria, after removing the sodas with corn syrup, began offering sodas made from cane sugar at a lower price than the sodas made with corn syrup.
C. Many families in the school district have at least one parent who works at the town’s biggest employer, a soda distribution plant.
D. In addition to buying sodas at the school cafeteria, students may also purchase sodas from one of the several vending machines on school property.
E. To comply with state standards, the school recently implemented a new health program with a focus on nutrition.
29 Sep 2025, 22:17
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We are asked to explain the contradiction:
* Cafeteria removes corn-syrup sodas → expected soda consumption to drop.
* Survey shows soda consumption rose 15%.
We need a reason why consumption increased despite the cafeteria’s action.
Option analysis:
A. Billboard ads.
→ Could increase interest in soda in general, but not specific to the timing/location. Weak explanation.
B. Cafeteria offered cane-sugar sodas at a lower price than before.
→ Explains that students switched to the new sodas, possibly buying more overall. Strong explanation.
C. Parents work at soda plant.
→ Unrelated to the increase in soda consumption at school hours.
D. Students can buy sodas from vending machines.
→ Could explain the increase if students bought elsewhere instead, but the passage seems focused on cafeteria’s change affecting **overall school-hour consumption**. Vending machines may already have been an option before.
E. New health program.
→ Would suggest consumption should decrease, not increase.
Correct answer: B
* Cafeteria removes corn-syrup sodas → expected soda consumption to drop.
* Survey shows soda consumption rose 15%.
We need a reason why consumption increased despite the cafeteria’s action.
Option analysis:
A. Billboard ads.
→ Could increase interest in soda in general, but not specific to the timing/location. Weak explanation.
B. Cafeteria offered cane-sugar sodas at a lower price than before.
→ Explains that students switched to the new sodas, possibly buying more overall. Strong explanation.
C. Parents work at soda plant.
→ Unrelated to the increase in soda consumption at school hours.
D. Students can buy sodas from vending machines.
→ Could explain the increase if students bought elsewhere instead, but the passage seems focused on cafeteria’s change affecting **overall school-hour consumption**. Vending machines may already have been an option before.
E. New health program.
→ Would suggest consumption should decrease, not increase.
Correct answer: B
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