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Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

California levies its real-estate tax as a percentage of a property's assessed value. California reassessed all properties late last year, ensuring that this year's real-estate tax on a given property fairly reflects that property's current value. By comparison with the previous assessment 3 years ago, the mean assessed property value was considerably lower. Nonetheless, the mean real-estate tax bill sent to California’s property owners this year is likely to be no lower than last year's, because ___.

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the assessed value of relatively modest properties in California went down more, on average, than that of more valuable properties
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B
actual selling prices of properties sold in California so far this year have been higher, on average, than assessed values
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a likely consequence of declining real-estate values in California will be a general slow-down in the local economy
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D
there have been many real-estate transactions over the last year, and many current property owners did not own California property a year ago
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E
the real-estate tax rate in California has not been set for this year, but will probably be higher than last year's rate
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The correct option is E the real-estate tax rate in California has not been set for this year, but will probably be higher than last year's rate
E is the correct answer as rate will probably be higher than last year rate.

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