Daily Drill: SAT® Inference Practice Question

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Today’s Daily Drill is a mock SAT® Inference question. It follows the digital SAT® format¹ but is also excellent practice for ACT® Reading.

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Free SAT® Practice Question (mock)

A 2023 audit by Thompson and Associates of MetroTech Corporation reported approximately 840 distinct financial transactions for the fiscal year, nearly double the number reported in Garcia and Wu's 2022 audit—a difference only partly attributable to increased business activity. Another factor is that the financial classification of electronic payment events is less standardized compared to that of cash sales, inventory purchases, and payroll disbursements, creating uncertainty about how to evaluate electronic transfers as transactions. Auditors' judgments on such matters therefore can be highly consequential. Indeed, the two audits reported similar counts of cash sales, inventory purchases, and payroll transactions, suggesting that ______

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A) Thompson and Associates reported a much higher number of transactions than Garcia and Wu did largely due to increased business activity during the later fiscal year.

B) some sequences of electronic transfers may have been treated as components of single transactions by Garcia and Wu but counted as separate transactions by Thompson and Associates.

C) Garcia and Wu may have been less thorough in their documentation of electronic payment events than Thompson and Associates were.

D) the lack of clear guidelines for categorizing electronic payments may have caused Thompson and Associates to undercount the number of distinct transactions.

(Answer Explanations and Strategy Brief Below.)

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