medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A regional agricultural report indicates that the total revenue from organic produce sales has increased by 30 percent over the last five years. However, during that same five-year period, the number of certified organic farms in the region has decreased by more than 40 percent.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy described above?
- Consumers in the region have grown steadily more aware of the health benefits of eating organic produce.
- The organic farms still operating in the region have greatly enlarged their acreage and boosted their yield per acre.
- Large conventional farms successfully pushed for stricter rules that make organic certification harder for small operations to obtain.
- Conventional grocery stores in the region now stock a far wider range of organic products than they did five years ago.
- The price consumers pay for organic produce is, on average, higher than the price of conventionally grown produce.
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