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This line graph represents the price of a trading card during the first

6

months of

1993

.
[asy] unitsize(18); for (int a = 0; a <= 6; ++a) { draw((4*a,0)--(4*a,10)); } for (int a = 0; a <= 5; ++a) { draw((0,2*a)--(24,2*a)); } draw((0,5)--(4,4)--(8,8)--(12,3)--(16,9)--(20,6)--(24,2),linewidth(1.5));
label("

Jan

",(2,0),S); label("

Feb

",(6,0),S); label("

Mar

",(10,0),S); label("

Apr

",(14,0),S); label("

May

",(18,0),S); label("

Jun

",(22,0),S); label("

<span class='latex-bold'>1993 PRICES FOR A TRADING CARD</span>

",(12,10),N);
label("\begin{tabular}{c}P \\ R \\ I \\ C \\ E \end{tabular}",(-2,5),W); label("

1

",(0,2),W); label("

2

",(0,4),W); label("

3

",(0,6),W); label("

4

",(0,8),W); label("

5

",(0,10),W); [/asy]
The greatest monthly drop in price occurred during

\text{(A)}\ \text{January} \qquad \text{(B)}\ \text{March} \qquad \text{(C)}\ \text{April} \qquad \text{(D)}\ \text{May} \qquad \text{(E)}\ \text{June}

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