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Q1. In order to protect its domestic sugar cane growers, the government of Country X decided to impose a steep tax on all imported cane juice, which is used a sweetener. As a direct result of this tax, the price of cane juice in Country X rose sharply. After the tax was imposed, all the country’s soft drink companies, which had before used cane juice as a sweetener in their drinks, switched to another sweetener, high fructose corn syrup, in order to maintain their cost structures. Which of the following can be most properly inferred from the passage above? A. The amount of cane juice required to sweeten one soft drink cost approximately the same as the amount of high fructose corn syrup required to sweeten one soft drink prior to the imposition of the cane juice import tax. B. Soft drink companies in Country X hoped to sell their products in the same countries that were traditionally known to export cane juice to Country X. C. The number
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