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Five cafe locations in rows; columns: seats, daily customers, average spend per customer. Sortable by any column.
Location	Seats	Daily customers	Avg spend ($)
Elm	40	320	9
Oak	55	280	12
Pine	30	200	8
Birch	48	360	7
Maple	35	240	11

The table shows, for the five locations of a cafe chain, the number of seats, the average number of customers served per day, and the average amount each customer spends. The table can be sorted by any column. For each statement, select Yes if it must be true based only on the data shown; otherwise select No.

(1) The two locations with the fewest seats together serve fewer daily customers than Birch alone: . (2) Ranking the locations by average spend does not give the same order as ranking them by number of seats: . (3) Birch takes in the most daily revenue of any location: .

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Answer & Explanation

Correct answer

1: No · 2: Yes · 3: No

None of these is a single-cell read; each needs a sum, a comparison of two orderings, or a product.

Statement 1: No. The two locations with the fewest seats are Pine (30) and Maple (35); their daily customers are 200 and 240, which sum to 440. Birch alone serves 360. Since 440 is more, not fewer, than 360, the statement is false. The pull is to assume the smallest cafes are also the quietest, so their combined traffic feels tiny, but two modest locations together out-draw the single busiest one.

Statement 2: Yes. By average spend the order is Oak, Maple, Elm, Pine, Birch; by seats the order is Oak, Birch, Elm, Maple, Pine. These are not the same order, since Maple is second in spend but fourth in seats, so the statement, which says they differ, is true. The trap is to check only the leader: Oak tops both lists, which can fool you into thinking the whole orderings coincide.

Statement 3: No. Daily revenue is customers times average spend: Elm 2,880, Oak 3,360, Pine 1,600, Birch 2,520, Maple 2,640. The highest is Oak, not Birch, so the statement is false. The bait is Birch's leading customer count of 360, but its low average spend of $7 pulls its revenue below Oak's, where fewer customers each spend $12.

The lesson: traffic alone does not decide revenue, and the leader of one ranking need not lead another. Correct answers: No / Yes / No.