Your scholarship depends on your maintaining a 3.5 cumulative GPA. Your GPA for last semester was 3.6, which brought your cumulative GPA down. What must be true?

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If the cumulative GPA was brought down by last semester's GPA, it means that the marginal grades (last semester's grades) were lower than the overall GPA. Therefore, choice B is the correct answer. Choice A is incorrect because it suggests that the marginal grades were higher than the overall GPA, but this would have resulted in an increase in the cumulative GPA, not a decrease. Choice C is incorrect because it assumes that this semester's grades will be the same as last semester's, which is not necessarily true. Choice D is also incorrect because it is too extreme and assumes that the scholarship will definitely be lost if this semester's grades are the same as last semester's; this is not necessarily true and depends on the specific GPA requirements of the scholarship.

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