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Two species of coffee are commercially grown: arabica, the original source of the drink, and robusta, which has more recently come under cultivation. The proportion of robusta beans in inexpensive blended coffees has increased in recent decades because robusta resists frost and disease better, fruits faster, and grows at lower elevations. Expensive gourmet coffees typically contain only arabica beans because robusta beans, though higher in caffeine than arabicas, are more neutral in flavor and consequently less interesting.
The information given most strongly supports which of the following?
A. Robusta cannot be grown successfully in the regions where arabica is commercially cultivated.
B. Inexpensive coffees sold now contain more caffeine than did coffees sold a few decades ago.
C. The only factor determining differences in flavor among different coffees is the proportion of robusta beans that they contain.
D. Although more robusta than arabica beans are sold, the total value of arabica beans sold each year exceeds that of robusta beans.
E. Arabica and robusta are the only species whose beans can be used to make coffee.
The information given most strongly supports which of the following?
A. Robusta cannot be grown successfully in the regions where arabica is commercially cultivated.
B. Inexpensive coffees sold now contain more caffeine than did coffees sold a few decades ago.
C. The only factor determining differences in flavor among different coffees is the proportion of robusta beans that they contain.
D. Although more robusta than arabica beans are sold, the total value of arabica beans sold each year exceeds that of robusta beans.
E. Arabica and robusta are the only species whose beans can be used to make coffee.
30 Jul 2024, 09:14
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A. Robusta cannot be grown successfully in the regions where arabica is commercially cultivated.
Passage only mentions that robusta is grown in lower elevations. We don't know if arabica is grown at higher elevations. So, nothing more can be derived.
B. Inexpensive coffees sold now contain more caffeine than did coffees sold a few decades ago.
Inexpensive coffees sold mean basically the commercial ones. Now it can be inferred from the passage that concentration of robusta (higher caffeine) is now more than arabica (lower caffeine) in the same jar of coffee. So indirectly this can be concluded.
C. The only factor determining differences in flavor among different coffees is the proportion of robusta beans that they contain.
Close but not all right. We don't know for sure if there are any other factors acting as taste determinants.
D. Although more robusta than arabica beans are sold, the total value of arabica beans sold each year exceeds that of robusta beans.
We're gonna need numbers to be sure of this. So, wrong.
E. Arabica and robusta are the only species whose beans can be used to make coffee.
Passage only mentions these to be the two types of commercial coffee beans. Baristas can make covfefe from cat excreta for all we know.
Correct: (B)
Passage only mentions that robusta is grown in lower elevations. We don't know if arabica is grown at higher elevations. So, nothing more can be derived.
B. Inexpensive coffees sold now contain more caffeine than did coffees sold a few decades ago.
Inexpensive coffees sold mean basically the commercial ones. Now it can be inferred from the passage that concentration of robusta (higher caffeine) is now more than arabica (lower caffeine) in the same jar of coffee. So indirectly this can be concluded.
C. The only factor determining differences in flavor among different coffees is the proportion of robusta beans that they contain.
Close but not all right. We don't know for sure if there are any other factors acting as taste determinants.
D. Although more robusta than arabica beans are sold, the total value of arabica beans sold each year exceeds that of robusta beans.
We're gonna need numbers to be sure of this. So, wrong.
E. Arabica and robusta are the only species whose beans can be used to make coffee.
Passage only mentions these to be the two types of commercial coffee beans. Baristas can make covfefe from cat excreta for all we know.
Correct: (B)
30 Jul 2024, 17:19
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Agree with Reasoning B has to be correct.
