I have a bad habit of mis-reading questions where I don't acknowledge a keyword in an answer choice that makes or breaks the question. It has happened on quite a lot of questions, and when I look back, I'm not sure why I did not see the obvious keyword that made a question right or wrong.

I spent 3 minutes on this question, almost eliminating D because I did not see the word "not" after "could not" and thought that this was a very dumb answer choice. It was only re-reading it after 2 minutes when the other ACs didn't make sense is when I caught the "not."

Anyone else struggling with this?

I got the right answer by assuming that all pet stores were "independently owned."

However, the modifier was never presented in the first sentence. What if they are operated as chains, like Pet Smart or something like that? Why would I assume that all stores in West Galverton are independently owned if the context never mentioned it?

i guess my problem was that i focused on the issue as a whole rather than answering with one perspective.

@KarenLuviano what others have said before was to write every single question you got wrong down on a physical notebook as well as the answer choices and write down why every answer is wrong except for the right answer. force yourself to understand why the answer is the answer because the concepts associated will be applicable to future questions

@amygao but fewer than half is in that 1% to 100% range, right? so why wouldn't we be able to use some