SAT® Reading and Writing Practice Question: Inference
Also Great Practice for ACT® Reading
Today’s practice is a mock SAT® Inference Question For proper time management on test day, you should aim to answer this question correctly in 30-45 seconds.
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In their book Market Innovation Trends, Mei Chen and Robert Whitaker examine restaurants' use of the nontraditional "name your own price" dining model. This model generally allows diners to pay more or less than a suggested price for their meal, with a minimum price of $5 to cover basic ingredient costs. As the authors note, at the independently owned Desert Palm Café, most customers paid only the minimum price, with only about 2% choosing to pay the suggested price or higher, resulting in revenue well below the restaurant's expectations. However, the authors also discuss Pasadena’s Urban Grove, a location of the national restaurant chain, which saw substantial earnings from its "name your own price" menu as a result of many customers choosing to pay more than the suggested prices. Hence, the "name your own price" model may ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A) prove financially successful for some restaurants but disappointing for others.
B) be more profitable for independently owned restaurants than for chain restaurants.
C) lead most restaurants that use the model to lower their suggested prices over time.
D) more accurately reflect differences in restaurant popularity than traditional fixed pricing.
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