An anganwadi's attendance book shows that the number of children present each day rose by half after a cooked midday meal was introduced, yet the grain drawn by the anganwadi from the village store did not rise at all. Which of the following, if true, best explains this?

The two records only look inconsistent if the grain in question is the grain the meal is cooked from. Once the cooking is shown to happen elsewhere, the store's issues answer to a separate scheme that no rise in attendance would move. Younger children might eat a little less but could not leave the figure untouched after a rise of half, while the hour at which attendance is entered and the monthly issue cycle change neither total.