Even though vegetable meal is nutritious to fish and less costly to use than anchovy meal, most fish farmers feed their fish only anchovy meal because fish prefer its taste and consequently gain weight faster. Farmed fish would gain weight faster still on a diet consisting of a new seafood product, but this diet`s advantages did not compensate its additional cost. Nevertheless, the product`s developers predict that their product will be a commercially successful food for farmed fish.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to justify the developer`s prediction?
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AFarmed fish preferred taste of a mixture of the new product and vegetable meal over the taste of anchovy meal.
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BIn the wild, fish of the species that are commonly farmed have diets that are more similar to in composition to the new product than to anchovy meal.
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CA pound of the new product provides more calories to farmed fish than does a pound of anchovy meal.
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DThe new product can only be used as fish food whereas anchovy meal can be used for a variety of other purposes.
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EThe new product will be sold at artificially low prices throughout introductory period in order to entice fish farmers to use it at least once.
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正确答案: A