Q8 - Advertisement: At BigFoods, we compare prices for you

by **ohthatpatrick** Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:41 pm

Question Type:
Inference (most strongly supported)

Stimulus Breakdown:
Most popular products at BigFoods cost 10% more at Grocerytown. None of the products at BigFoods were on sale.

Answer Anticipation:
Inferences usually come via Conditional, Causal, or Quantitative language. It seems like this one could be heading somewhere math-y. We know that for this subset of times, the regular price at BF is 10% cheaper than the (sale/regular?) price at G-town.

Correct Answer:
C

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) We have no idea of any time sequence here.

(B) We have no idea about the preferences of any shoppers.

(C) Yes, that's just saying "at least one of the most common itmes at BF is cheaper than at G-town", which we know since we know that "for this subset of products, regular price at BF is 10% cheaper than G-town".

(D) We have no idea of when any price comparison was carried out. It's expressed in the timeless present: "We compare prices for you!"

(E) This makes plenty of real world sense: a lot of us go to at least a couple different groceries, and we know which items we like to get at each store. But we were told nothing about the most popular products at G-town.

Takeaway/Pattern: This seems like an easy question, if we limit ourselves to considering only the information we were given. We also know to feel safer picking weaker language on Inference, so the "Some" in (C) is very inviting.

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