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Plan: As part of its Healthy Students Initiative, Happy Meadows Elementary School decided two years ago to raise its school lunch budget by 20 percent in order to serve healthier food to its students. Result The nutritional quality of Happy Meadows' school lunches is no better now than it was two years ago. Further information: the annual rate of inflation since the budget change has been below 4 percent, and all of the money budgeted for lunches has been received by the school cafeteria.
In light of the further information, which of the following, if true, would best explain the result that followed from the implementation of the plan?
A. The school cafeteria does not receive any outside funding.
B. The cafeteria's ordering process requires that all meals for a semester be planned before the semester starts.
C. The prices of healthy ingredients have increased at a rate much higher than the rate of inflation.
D. When the budget change occurred, the nutritional quality of Happy Meadows' school lunches was at an all-time low.
E. The most recent budget increase was only the second such increase in the last eight years
In light of the further information, which of the following, if true, would best explain the result that followed from the implementation of the plan?
A. The school cafeteria does not receive any outside funding.
B. The cafeteria's ordering process requires that all meals for a semester be planned before the semester starts.
C. The prices of healthy ingredients have increased at a rate much higher than the rate of inflation.
D. When the budget change occurred, the nutritional quality of Happy Meadows' school lunches was at an all-time low.
E. The most recent budget increase was only the second such increase in the last eight years
08 May 2024, 04:07
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C should be the answer.
If prices of the healthy ingredients increased at a rate much higher than the inflation rate , that would explain why the quality of cafeteria food dint get better even after increased funding .
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If prices of the healthy ingredients increased at a rate much higher than the inflation rate , that would explain why the quality of cafeteria food dint get better even after increased funding .
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
This question is asking that we evaluate information that isn't given in the body of the question, so our best bet is to look at the answers and see if we can rid ourselves of any obvious wrong choices.
It doesn't matter whether the "cafeteria" gets any outside funding because the school specifically increased its budget to improve "nutritional quality."
Choice (A) is incorrect. The cafeteria has had two years to plan around the increased budget, so planning a "semester" in advance shouldn't be an obstacle.
Choice (B) is wrong. However, "healthy ingredients" increasing in price would make the budget less effective, so (C) is a plausible answer. If the quality of school lunches was "at an all-time low" when the budget increase went into effect, improvements should be even more evident, so (D) is a weak choice.
Choice (E) is irrelevant—we're not concerned with the number of budget increases but the effectiveness of the most recent one.
The correct answer is Choice (C).
