Answer Choices
A) If stores increased their prices to make up for this expenditure, the additional cost to consumers
Increasing their prices to make up for this expenditure, stores could make an additional cost to consumers that
The additional cost to consumers to make up for this expenditure would be increased store prices so that they
If the additional cost to consumers made up for this expenditure by increasing store prices, it
Explanation for Question 36 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat
Hey guys. So question 36 asks us which choice most effectively combines the substances 2 at the underlined portion. With any question like this, 3 what you want to do is cut out unnecessary words. 4 You don't want to repeat yourself. We want to look at what they're trying 5 to say and figure out an answer choice is going to not repeat itself 6 within that. So these two sentences say, 7 stores could increase the prices to make up for this expenditure, 8 the additional cost to consumers, if they did so would average 30 cents per shopping 9 trip, hardly enough to keep consumers away. 10 They enough to keep most customers away. So what's happening here is they're saying 11 that stores could increase the price to make up for this expenditure. 12 And the additional costs to consumers would average 30 cents a day when it says 13 if they did. So here in this next part, 14 that is redundant when you combine the two sentences, 15 because if they did, so is already implied by the fact that it's sending, 16 they could do this. 17 So in, in find the answer choice that tells us that stores could increase 18 their price to make up for this expenditure. And the additional cost to consumers 19 would be blank. So start at the bottom and move our way up. 20 This has that the additional cost to consumers made up for this expenditure by 21 increasing store prices it blank. 22 Now this seems to flip around the meaning of our sentence in a way 23 that makes it no longer make sense. It's saying, 24 ...