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Information and Ideas questions ask you to draw logical conclusions supported by explicitly stated evidence. The passage states two key ideas: (1) urban beekeeping is increasing, and (2) “hive density alone does not ensure pollination success,” because “diverse flowering plants across seasons” also matter. The contrastive structure (“Yet…”) emphasizes that while hive numbers are a factor, they are insufficient by themselves. Thus the best inference is that seasonal plant diversity meaningfully affects pollination success, captured precisely by choice B. Choice A contradicts the text’s explicit “does not ensure” language. Choice C misreads the trend: the passage says beekeeping has “grown steadily,” not declined. Choice D overreaches; the text never claims cities require rural farms, only that local plant diversity is also important. On the PSAT, correct inferences must be tightly anchored to the passage’s statements, not to outside knowledge or extreme generalizations. Noting contrastive transition cues (“Yet,” “However,” “But”) is especially helpful: they signal a refinement or limitation on a prior claim and often point to the sentence carrying the inference-tested idea.