Critical Reasoning (CR) | ­Poppy petals function to attract pollinating insects. The pollination

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The stimulus for this Inference question, like many others, presents not an argument but a set of facts. This one lists three
conditions or applications that can affect a poppy flower.
(1) When a poppy is pollinated, its petals wilt in a day or two because of some substance released into the flower.
(2) If a poppy’s not pollinated, then as long as it’s fed, its petals won’t wilt for a week or so.
(3) If the unpollinated flower is cut from the plant, the same substance is released as in pollination. We can infer that the cut
flower’s petals will therefore wilt because it gets that substance . . . but if you didn’t see this right away, all you needed to do
was attack the choices in search of the one that must betrue.

(A) The behaviour of insects, and what influences it, are outside the scope of this discussion of what happens to the plants
after (or instead of)pollination.

(B) is what we want. A cut flower, according to the last sentence, will have its mystery substance
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