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Passage Summary: Book sales are booming, especially for cookbooks aimed at experts rather than beginners, even though one particular beginner's cookbook is sold everywhere.

Reasoning: Global book sales reached record highs last year, with a specific increase in cookbooks purchased by professionals and non-beginners, despite the global availability of one specific beginner's cookbook.

Analysis: Treat these premises as absolute facts and look for a synthesis. We know that while the majority of cookbooks sold were not for beginners, there is still at least one beginner book with massive global reach. We also know that professional cooks are buying more books than they used to. Look for an answer that combines these trends without overstepping into 'must be true' territory or making assumptions about the quality of the books.

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Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?

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Given record-high total cookbook sales and that, for the first time, a majority were non-beginner, it follows that more non-beginner cookbooks were sold last year than in any prior year.
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