|Question 14Verbal

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Antonia Olivia Dolan and colleagues conducted a study of participants’ preferred listening volume, in decibels (dB), for various audio recordings, including heavy metal music, acoustic folk music, and nature sounds. The team found that participants listened to recordings they liked most at higher volumes (greater dB) than recordings they liked less and that musicians tended to listen at higher volumes than nonmusicians did. For example, if the favorite recording of both a participating musician and a participating nonmusician was Metallica’s “Sad but True” and the musician played it at 85.5 dB, it was therefore likely that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
the musician and nonmusician would both play other music by Metallica at approximately 85.5 dB.
A
the musician would not play music in the heavy metal genre at less than 85.5 dB.
B
the nonmusician would play “Sad but True” at greater than 85.5 dB.
C
the nonmusician would play “Sad but True” at less than 85.5 dB.
D