PT159.S1.Q4

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PrepTest 159 - Section 1 - Question 4

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A process of extracting caffeine from coffee without seriously compromising the coffee's taste was introduced a number of years ago. ████ ████ █████████████ ██████ █████ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ████████ ████ ██████ ████████ ████████ ████ ██ ██████ ██████ ████

"Surprising" Phenomenon

According to the stimulus, it has long been possible to decaffeinate coffee without much harm to the coffee's flavor. This makes it confusing that decaf coffee was reported to taste bad when it was first made available.

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The correct answer will help to explain why early decaf coffee was reported to taste bad, for some reason other than the decaffeination process. This might involve a physical factor about the coffee, for example that it took longer to sell, and the taste degraded while sitting on the shelf. It could also involve the coffee drinkers who reported a bad taste—maybe they were biased against decaf.

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Which one of the following, ██ █████ ████ █████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██████

The percentage of ██████ ████████ ███ █████ ████ █████████████ ██████ ██ ████ ██████ █████ ████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ███ ███████████

Just knowing that decaf coffee is more popular now than it used to be doesn't tell us anything about why it tasted bad early on. This doesn't resolve anything.

Many coffee drinkers █████ ███ █████ █████████████ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ████████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ ███████

This tells us that some people are biased, but it doesn't actually suggest that they would rate decaf unfairly—or that there are enough of them to skew the overall reports. So this still doesn't help us.

The taste of ███ ████ ██ ██████ ███ ██ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ███ ████████ █████ ████ ███

We have no idea if the coffee drinkers mentioned in the stimulus were eating with their decaf coffee, let alone what they were eating and how it affected the taste. This doesn't resolve the discrepancy.

Coffee that is █████████████ ███████ ████ ███████ █████████ █████ ████ ████ ███████ ███████

As far as we know, the cost of coffee has nothing to do with how it tastes. That means this isn't a relevant consideration, and doesn't help us.

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This gives us another factor that could have affected flavor. If manufacturers were using low-quality beans, that explains why the coffee tasted bad for a reason other than the decaffeination process.

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